Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel is an American novelist, essayist, and public speaker whose fiction asks what families are and how they come to be. Frankel's novels include This Is How It Always Is, a story about a family navigating a young child's gender transition, which drew both praise and controversy. Other titles are Family Family, about adoption and motherhood, One Two Three, a work of climate fiction, and Enormous Wings. Frankel also advocates for transgender rights.