This is how it always is: A Novel
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People Magazine 's Top 10 Books of 2017 Amazon's Best Books of 2017: Top 20 Amazon's Best Literature and Fiction of 2017 Bustle's 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017 PopSugar's Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far) Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far BookBrowse's The 20 Best Books of 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist The Globe and Mail 's Top 100 Books of 2017 "It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." --Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies 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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Boys
Boys -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Family secrets
Family secrets -- Fiction
Fiction
Gender identity
Gender identity -- Fiction
Large type books
Literature
Parent and child
Parent and child -- Fiction
Parenting
Parenting -- Fiction
Parents of transgender children
Parents of transgender children -- Fiction
Sexual behavior
Transgender children
Transgender children -- Fiction
Boys
Boys -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Family secrets
Family secrets -- Fiction
Fiction
Gender identity
Gender identity -- Fiction
Large type books
Literature
Parent and child
Parent and child -- Fiction
Parenting
Parenting -- Fiction
Parents of transgender children
Parents of transgender children -- Fiction
Sexual behavior
Transgender children
Transgender children -- Fiction
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9781250088550
9781410499042
9781427282521
9781427282545
9781250118523
9781410499042
9781427282521
9781427282545
9781250118523
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| display_description | "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. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren't panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes. 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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| title_display | This is how it always is |
| title_full | This Is How It Always Is A Novel, This is how it always is / Laurie Frankel |
| title_short | This is how it always is |
| title_sub | A Novel |
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