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This Is How It Always Is

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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Analyze the ways in which Rosie’s sister Poppy’s death affected Rosie’s life.

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List the ways in which Claude’s transformation to Poppy are foreshadowed in Part 1. 

3.

What role does Carmelo play in Poppy’s life?

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