This Is How It Always Is
A Novel
Laurie Frankel
- New
- York
- Times
- Bestseller
The
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- expected.”
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- 2017
Longlisted
- for
- 2019
- International
- DUBLIN
- Literary
- Award“It
- made
- me
- laugh,
- it
- made
- me
- cry,
- it
- made
- me
- think.”
- —Liane
- Moriarty,
- #1
- New
- York
- Times
- bestselling
- author
- of
- Big
- Little
- LiesThis
- 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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