Laurie Frankel
Kindle Edition | Pages: 338 pages Rating: 4.27 | 90550 Users | 9834 Reviews
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| Original Title: | This Is How It Always Is |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017) |
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Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG 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 ConsequencesParticularize Appertaining To Books This Is How It Always Is
| Title | : | This Is How It Always Is |
| Author | : | Laurie Frankel |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books This Is How It Always Is
From the blurb: 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.This is Claude. Hes 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 ClaudeI'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 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
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
This book takes on the subject of transgender children, a subject the author knows of personally, as one of her children is transgender. But really, there are lessons here for everyone about unconditional love and acceptance of anyone who is different.Penn and Rosie have 5 boys. Claude is the youngest and at a young age it becomes clear he feels he should have been born a girl. The title refers to the struggle all parents face: "This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decisions on
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
Speaking as the mom of a mildly autistic child, I'm recommending this book as a valuable emotional resource for any parent of a child with differences from the norm. (Whatever the heck "norm" is.) I am not a perfect parent. I yell, I swear, and worst of all, I have to blink and think twice before defending my child from random blatant unfairnesses the world visits upon her. I hate that I hesitate. For example, when a teacher assigned my daughter Tater a failing grade for not eating in class as a
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