Kathleen Robbins and Michele Grove will lead the book study on Wednesday, October 14th from 7-9 PM. There is still time to read this book before we meet.

Join us to discuss one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2017 about change, secrets, and family. Laurie Frankel’s This Is How It Always Is is 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, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.”

This is the journey of Claude / Poppy and his / her family. He / she is five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. She also loves wearing a dress and dreams of being a princess.

• “This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.”
• “This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.”
• “This is how children change…and then change the world.”

In the congregation’s commitment to understanding and embracing gender fluidity, this discussion will go a long way in helping all of us understand our bias and work to better inclusivity.