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New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected."
-- Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) People Magazine 's Top 10 Books of 2017 Amazon's Best Books of 2017: Top 20 Amazon's Best Literature and Fiction of 2017 Bustle's 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017 PopSugar's Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far) Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far BookBrowse's The 20 Best Books of 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist The Globe and Mail 's Top 100 Books of 2017 Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
"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.
Laurie Frankel
Laurie Frankel is the bestselling, award-winning writer of three novels: Goodbye for Now, It's Not me, It's You! and This is How It Always Is. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Publisher¿s Weekly, People Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other publications. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, and all three have been optioned for film or TV. She is a former college professor who now writes full-time.
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"Book of the Week"
"Deeply satisfying...An intimate family story...Day-to-day parenting dilemmas are where Frankel shines." -The New York Times Book Review
"Brave, complicated, occasionally horrifying and frequently very funny...Frankel is a first-rate storyteller." - Seattle Times
"Frankel has tackled this controversial topic in a warm, funny and honest way and one that will undoubtedly spark thought and conversation." - The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"A novel of great empathy and compassion that transcends politics...This is a family that you will take into your heart and-like all friends-you will welcome the changes that they bring to your life." - The Seattle Review of Books
"A story about the challenges of parenting and love, period... This beautiful story is deeply personal, a heart-rending glimpse of an author writing her way to understanding." - BookPage
"Sly and charming...Comes at the perfect time... This Is How It Always Is explores the travails of a modern family, where challenges about a child's gender are the same as any other struggles of growing up." - Shelf Awareness
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Overview
New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected." -- Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) People Ma ...
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Overview
New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected."
-- Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) People Magazine 's Top 10 Books of 2017 Amazon's Best Books of 2017: Top 20 Amazon's Best Literature and Fiction of 2017 Bustle's 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017 PopSugar's Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far) Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far BookBrowse's The 20 Best Books of 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist The Globe and Mail 's Top 100 Books of 2017 Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
"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.
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About the Author
Laurie Frankel
Laurie Frankel is the bestselling, award-winning writer of three novels: Goodbye for Now, It's Not me, It's You! and This is How It Always Is. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Publisher¿s Weekly, People Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other publications. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, and all three have been optioned for film or TV. She is a former college professor who now writes full-time.
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Professional Reviews
"Book of the Week"
"Deeply satisfying...An intimate family story...Day-to-day parenting dilemmas are where Frankel shines." -The New York Times Book Review
"Brave, complicated, occasionally horrifying and frequently very funny...Frankel is a first-rate storyteller." - Seattle Times
"Frankel has tackled this controversial topic in a warm, funny and honest way and one that will undoubtedly spark thought and conversation." - The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"A novel of great empathy and compassion that transcends politics...This is a family that you will take into your heart and-like all friends-you will welcome the changes that they bring to your life." - The Seattle Review of Books
"A story about the challenges of parenting and love, period... This beautiful story is deeply personal, a heart-rending glimpse of an author writing her way to understanding." - BookPage
"Sly and charming...Comes at the perfect time... This Is How It Always Is explores the travails of a modern family, where challenges about a child's gender are the same as any other struggles of growing up." - Shelf Awareness
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