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. 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's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations transformations fairy tales and family. And its 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.
Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of January 2017: In recent years we??ve seen an increasing number of memoirs from transgender individuals and from parents forging uncharted waters in order to help their transgender children live happy?? healthy lives in a society that still largely defines gender by what??s in your pants. In her novel This is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel takes those real-life experiences and puts them into a big-hearted story of family and secrets. Penn and Rosie are a close?? loving couple?? living in Madison??