This Is How It Always Is

by

Laurie Frankel

This Is How It Always Is: Part II: Who Knows? Summary & Analysis

is in with a patient when calls. Rosie steps out to take the call, but Poppy is silent on the other end. Rosie is instantly scared something is majorly wrong, and then Poppy speaks. “Mom. They know,” she says, “Everyone knows.” Rosie hangs up and runs home.

This chapter is short and comes out of the blue, which is how carefully kept secrets such as Poppy’s gender identity usually come out, Frankel implies.

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