This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas of Love, Goodbye for Now, and the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick. This is always the case. Frankel and her husband, daughter, and border collie live in Seattle.

This is how a family keeps a secret...and how the secret keeps them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until it becomes complicated. This is how children transform...and then transform the world.

This Is How It Always Is is a story of Claude. He is the youngest of five brothers and is five years old. He enjoys peanut butter sandwiches. He also enjoys wearing dresses and aspires to be a princess. Claude says he wants to be a girl when he grows up. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be able to be whoever he wants to be. They just aren't sure they're ready to share that with the rest of the world. Claude's secret is soon kept by the entire family. Until it explodes one day.

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about how this is always the case: change is always difficult, miraculous, and difficult again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, and children grow but not always in the way we expect. And families who have secrets do not get to keep them indefinitely.

Author: Laurie Frankel

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-Always-Laurie-Frankel/dp/1250088550/

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars (from 12692 reviews)

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