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Original Title:	This Is How It Always Is
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel

Kindle Edition | Pages: 338 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 90550 Users | 9834 Reviews

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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.

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.

"This is a novel everyone should read. It’s brilliant. It’s bold. And it’s time.”
―Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Banquet of Consequences

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Title	:	This Is How It Always Is
Author	:	Laurie Frankel
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	June 2018 by Flatiron Books (first published January 4th 2017)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. LGBT. Audiobook

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Ratings: 4.27 From 90550 Users | 9834 Reviews

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This is the first novel I've read that explores raising a transgendered child (note: "transgendered" may not be exactly the right word). About 6 years ago I did read Raising My Rainbow by blogger extraordinaire Lori Duron. Having that background knowledge helped me appreciate this book even more, especially in the ways that Frankel focused on unexpected challenges in the family. While they devote so much energy into supporting their son's need to be a girl, they must also navigate the needs of

I'm really conflicted on the rating for THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS because on the one hand it's great that this book has so many positives & doesn't end on a pessimistic tone; we need LGBTQIAP+ stories that don't end in tragedy. (We need more of these books in general.) On the other hand, at times, there were such unrealistic situations taking place that I was wondering if the author was living in fantasyland- you'd have to suspend disbelief to enjoy it. It's clear that this is a personal

This book is one that I want to press into people's hands.Finally picked it up for a bookclub, and so glad I did. This is a book that inspires conversations and makes you really think about a topic and situation. How would your family handle this? How would you approach some of these questions? I think the point Frankel is making is that it is so unique, sometimes the answer isn't clear.Rosie and Penn have a love story for the ages. Rosie is a Doctor working long nights in the ER and Penn is a

I don't want to give any hints as to what this book is about. Don't read about it first, don't read the blurb on the dust jacket. Don't read a recap. Just read it, as I was told to do. You won't regret it.

4.5 very enthusiastic stars!Oh, this book! Author Laurie Frankel manages to somehow beautifully capture the quirks and silliness and love that is part of being family. Each of the five children in this book had such unique personalities, and at times their antics came close (but never quite crossed the line) to being too outrageous. Every single vignette pulled me in and made me want to know this family (albeit perhaps from afar -- they seem a bit noisy).The main story for this novel follows

Maybe just a little too preachy, and a little too neat. I suspect that: 1. a vast majority of transgender children do not have such understanding and accommodating parents and siblings, 2. most families with transgender children can not afford to move a few states away to a neighborhood of their choice in the hopes of escaping discrimination, and 3. it is not nearly as simple for even a young child to "pass" as a different gender in a new school system for several years without being discovered

The only reason I finished this is because I think the topic of discussion is important and I wanted to give it my attention. This book is a character study, and not just of Claude/Poppy, but the entire family. I made no real connections with any of them individually, but did feel the love amongst them as a whole. Character studies are just not my thing. I don't enjoy it. I don't want to study fictional characters this closely. The writing style was horrid and I hated it. There was so much