Review: This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Photo: Left Part, Cover Text: This is How it Always Us by Laurie Frankel. Camera pointed up a tree at a blue/pink sky. A child in rainbow leggings is climbing the tree. Right Part: Head shot of Laurie Frankel: white, middle aged woman in a v cut black top with red/brown hair turned perpendicular to camera but looking at it over her shoulder. Forest trail out of focus in background.
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#ThisisHowitAlwaysIs by @Laurie_Frankel is a beautifully written novel covering #parenting, #trans-children, #family, and #myth. The beats of the story were tight and the tension kept me hanging on every moment. As a parent, I have wondered about how I would parent a trans-kid and Frankel's novel feels like a parental speculative fiction that lets the reader experience some of the inevitable obstacles that a family of a trans-child must overcome. I don't want to give a moment of it away.
This is How it Always Is by Frankel is beautiful and worth your time.