The release date for the English version of 'This Is How It Always Is' by
Laurie Frankel is Jun 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A different version of the ASIN B01HW6Z3FG cover
This is how a family maintains a secret, and how that secret ultimately serves to preserve them.
This is the happily ever after that a family experiences, until such happily ever after becomes problematic.
Children affect the world in this way, and it changes them in turn.
It's Claude here. The youngest of five brothers, he is five years old and a peanut butter sandwich enthusiast. In addition, he loves dressing up and aspires to be a princess.
Claude claims that he wants to be a female when he grows up.
Penn and Rosie support Claude's desire to be anyone he desires. Simply put, they're unsure whether they're ready to reveal it to everyone. Before long, the whole family is concealing Claude's identity. Up until the day it blows up.
The book This Is How It Always Is is about family, fairy tales, metamorphoses, and discoveries. It also concerns the ways that things are always this way: Parenting is always a plunge into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts; children develop, but not necessarily in the manner that is planned. Change is always difficult, amazing, and hard again. Furthermore, families who have secrets can't keep them forever.