Book Review: This Is How It Always Is

This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel

• Heartfelt

• Modern family obstacles

• Fab homemade fairytales

• 5 stars

I has taken me a while to find the words to for a review. At minimum, I highly recommend and give 5 stars.

Some of the most authentic emotions, story telling, family situations I've ever read. So many times I clutched my hand to my chest, or giggled, or held my breath. There are so many raw, real pieces of this story.

There was pain and hope and deep breaths for the whole family within each chapter. The authenticity of mixed emotions and unclear decisions. I feel this is truly a story for the ages.

There were so many times I wanted to reach out to Rosie and be there for her. Her loyalty to her kids and family was inspirational. The need to protect and her resilience in all the difficulties that presents when there are no totally correct answers.

I truly hope everyone takes a moment for this book and lets it touch and soften them the way it did me. I hope it makes its way onto bookshelves that need it most.

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My Synopsis: Claude is the youngest of five boys. In a house with five boys there is a lot of chaos, weirdness, strange happenings. So when Claude renames themselves Poppy and wears dresses and fairy wings - it starts as another childhood scenario, an eye roll, a nod to let creative and happy things happen. This is how is always is with the boys, what could go wrong. But soon it's a secret kept, then revealed, and then...now what.

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