This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel [New]
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"Laurie Frankel has written one of those very rare, special novels that examines the way we live--in our homes, in our families, in our bodies--with an astonishing balance of humor, complexity, and above all, kindness. This Is How It Always Is teaches us to look beyond the traditional binary oppositions of boy vs. girl, right vs. wrong, real vs. make-believe, and to find courage and beauty in the in-between."
—Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being
Booksellers note:
This is a book I endlessly recommend. It’s a “restore your faith in humanity” kind of book. The audiobook is wonderful, too!
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Paperback
"Laurie Frankel has written one of those very rare, special novels that examines the way we live--in our homes, in our families, in our bodies--with an astonishing balance of humor, complexity, and above all, kindness. This Is How It Always Is teaches us to look beyond the traditional binary oppositions of boy vs. girl, right vs. wrong, real vs. make-believe, and to find courage and beauty in the in-between."
—Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being
Booksellers note:
This is a book I endlessly recommend. It’s a “restore your faith in humanity” kind of book. The audiobook is wonderful, too!
Libro is an audiobook company that shares profits with small, indie bookstores like ours. Their subscriptions are comparable to Audible, but instead of Amazon, you’re supporting small businesses and members get 30% off audiobook list prices. Here’s this title on Libro: This is How it Always Is
Paperback
"Laurie Frankel has written one of those very rare, special novels that examines the way we live--in our homes, in our families, in our bodies--with an astonishing balance of humor, complexity, and above all, kindness. This Is How It Always Is teaches us to look beyond the traditional binary oppositions of boy vs. girl, right vs. wrong, real vs. make-believe, and to find courage and beauty in the in-between."
—Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being
Booksellers note:
This is a book I endlessly recommend. It’s a “restore your faith in humanity” kind of book. The audiobook is wonderful, too!
Libro is an audiobook company that shares profits with small, indie bookstores like ours. Their subscriptions are comparable to Audible, but instead of Amazon, you’re supporting small businesses and members get 30% off audiobook list prices. Here’s this title on Libro: This is How it Always Is
"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.
ISBN: 1250088569 EAN: 9781250088567
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Transgender
- Fiction | Literary