![]() ![]() ![]() Poppy’s brothers become worried about keeping Claude a secret. As Poppy and her peers approach puberty, Rosie and Penn weigh the options of using hormone blockers to delay Poppy’s biological changes. In their new Seattle setting, Rosie and Penn decide not to tell people about Poppy’s past as Claude. The book’s second part picks up when Claude has transitioned to Poppy and is entering the fifth grade. After Rosie researches tolerant metropolitan areas, she and Penn move their family to Seattle. ![]() Rosie panics about Claude’s safety in Madison. The patient is only 19 years old and does not survive. The Walsh-Adams family muddles through Claude’s transition until Rosie treats a transgender patient in the ER who is suffering from injuries incurred from a hate crime. Much to the chagrin of Claude’s kindergarten teacher, Rosie and Penn allow Claude to explore his evolving gender identification. This desire persists into kindergarten, when Claude begins to wear dresses. At three years old, he decides he wants to be a girl. While in labor with Claude, all Rosie can think is “Poppy.”Ĭlaude is a very intelligent child, crawling at six months and speaking his first word at nine months. At the beginning of the book, Rosie reflects on her sister Poppy’s early death and wonders if perhaps she has been waiting to give birth to a girl to replace the child who was lost. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her writer husband, Penn Adams, and their four boys. Rosie Walsh is pregnant with her fifth son, Claude. ![]()
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