A review by lizardinhat
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

There were parts of this I loved and parts I felt like I didn’t exactly agree with, but I suppose this story is (mostly) about what it is to be a parent to a trans kid and that parenthood is difficult and complicated and has no right answers. So even the parts I didn’t love, e.g.

the rapid switches between he/him and she/her pronouns/the switching between the names and that I wish it had been clearer that it is right to support your trans kid to be themselves

, I think it was honest to what the story was and what the characters believed.