New York TimesBestseller
The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
People Magazines Top 10 Books of the year
The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of the year
It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.
Liane Moriarty, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofBig 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. Hes 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. Theyre just not sure theyre ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claudes secret. Until one day it explodes.
Laurie Frankel'sThis Is How It Always Isis a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And its about the ways in which 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 dont get to keep them forever.
Laurie Frankelis the
New York Timesbestselling, award-winning author of the novels
Family Family,
One Two Three,
Goodbye for Now,
The Atlas of Love, and the Reeses Book Club Pick
This Is How It Always Is. Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, daughter, and border collie.
Its early days, but this big-hearted novel about a family with a transgender child is in the lead for the most sensitively and sincerely told sl3-
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