![]() ![]() They are eager to support their child but unsure how best to do so.Ĭlaude becomes Poppy, and it’s wonderful but not always easy. Rosie and Penn read books, consult a “multi-degreed social-working therapist-magician,” and talk to Claude’s teachers. This fourth son is only three when he begins saying that he wants to be a girl when he grows up. Rosie isn’t superstitious, but she still follows a German folkloric suggestion to conceive a girl by sticking a wooden spoon under the bed before sex. This child starts out named Claude and goes on to be named Poppy, which sends Rosie and Penn Walsh-Adams on a desperate search for the best way to raise their gender nonconforming child. ![]() The novel’s focus, however, settles upon the couple’s youngest child. Together they take on Halloween costumes and shifts in the ER and a never-ending bedtime story. The book’s third-person limited narration offers both parents’ thoughts, positioning the two collectively as the protagonist. ![]() ![]() Parents Rosie and Penn are an ER doctor and a writer, respectively. Laurie Frankel’s third novel, This Is How It Always Is, tackles the sprawling quotidian reality of an upper middle class family of seven. ![]()
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