β Scribed by Laurie Frankel
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This is how a family keeps a secretand how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever afteruntil happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children changeand then change the world.
When
Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their
family, no one is surprised its another baby boy. At least their large,
loving, chaotic family knows what to expect.
But Claude is not
like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it
off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long
enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
Rosie
and Penn arent panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all,
and make-believe is fun. But 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 dont get to keep
them forever.
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