4D. I thought long and hard about how to describe this amazing book, and 4-dimensional was what I decided on. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel: 📚
a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again
This book is funny, sad, complicated, and deeply textured. There are no easy answers, but in a family founded on love and what will be best for a child, somehow they muddle through.
The language was clever too. I saved half a dozen selections. Here's one:
Everyone’s someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms.
