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.
This is Claude. He’s five years
old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also
loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.
When he grows up, Claude says, he
wants to be a girl.
Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever
Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the
world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it
explodes.
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.
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About the author:
Laurie Frankel is the author of
three novels: THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS (Jan. 2017), GOODBYE FOR NOW, and THE
ATLAS OF LOVE. She is also the parent of one child, the minder of one border
collie, the partner of one husband, the denizen of one city (Seattle), and the
reader of tens of thousands of books.
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