And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever. 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. This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. Its all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise, silence and sentiment, emotion and fear.
They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. But first there was life, hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. This is how children change…and then change the world.
This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. Everything you need for every book you read. This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on This Is How It Always Is can help. Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG
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