This Is How It Always Is This Is How It Always Is

This Is How It Always Is

    • 4.4 • 256 Ratings
    • $19.99

    • $19.99

Publisher Description

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

*Named one of the top 10 books of 2017 by People Magazine*

“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.

"The audiobook will undoubtedly steal hearts" - AudioFile

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
GZ
Gabra Zackman
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:07
hr min
RELEASED
2017
January 24
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
588.3
MB

Customer Reviews

great robot! ,

Awesome read

Great book, full of emotions and unconditional love, dreams and life.

DMTobi ,

This is How it always is

This family’s story draws the reader into their individual and collective reactions to the recognition that the youngest child is trans. The story unfolds naturally and sensitively shows a family grappling with the psycho-social complexities that arise as their daughter moves from early childhood to preteen. It’s beautifully written.

Vantasner Meridian ,

What a wonderful book

I absolutely loved the audio. It’s interesting to me that others didn’t. The book is so tender. The reader’s voice is comforting and really reflects the gentleness of Penn and Rosie, and the difficulty of trying to navigate parenting intentionally. The book was wonderful and I didn’t want it to end.

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