5/29/2023 0 Comments The book this is how it always is![]() ![]() THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS depicts a family of seven-physician mother Rosie, writer father Penn and their five children who are-to use the phrase currently deemed appropriate but which will probably change as society becomes more or less accepting of the varied definitions of gender-assigned male at birth. As the proud father of a transdaughter myself, I looked forward to seeing my own struggles reflected in its pages, but while my daughter transitioned as an adult, the child in Frankel’s novel is prepubescent, and the book examines the controversial and timely topics that inevitably accompanying that story-from the stress it can put on a marriage to asking your children to keep secrets to the ethics of hormone suppressors. ![]() I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first began reading Laurie Frankel’s novel about a mother dealing with her son’s struggle with gender definition. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |