This Is How It Always Is
of Laurie Frankel (Goodreads Author)
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Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FGThis is how a family keeps a secretâŠand how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives happily ever afterâŠuntil happily ever after becomes complicated.This is how children changeâŠand then change the world.This is Claude. Heâs 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. Theyâre just not sure theyâre ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claudeâs secret. Until one day it explodes.This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And itâs 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 donât get to keep them forever."This is a novel everyone should read. Itâs brilliant. Itâs bold. And itâs time.â âElizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Banquet of Consequences
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Book Details
- Format E-book
- Pages 338 pages
- Publisher Flatiron Books
- Publication Date June 2018
- First Publication 01/04/17
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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