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. Heβs 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. Theyβre just not sure theyβre ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claudeβs secret. Until one day it explodes.
This Is How It Always Is is
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. Heβs 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. Theyβre just not sure theyβre ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claudeβs secret. Until one day it explodes.
This Is How It Always Is is
This Is How It Always Is
ΠΠΏΠΈΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΠΈ Ρ Π°ΡΠ°ΠΊΡΠ΅ΡΠΈΡΡΠΈΠΊΠΈ
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. Heβs 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. Theyβre just not sure theyβre ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claudeβs secret. Until one day it explodes.
This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And itβs 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 donβt get to keep them forever
- Π’ΠΈΠΏ ΠΎΠ±Π»ΠΎΠΆΠΊΠΈ ΠΡΠ³ΠΊΠΈΠΉ ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΏΠ»ΡΡ
- ΠΠΎΠ»ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠ²ΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΡ 472
- ΠΠ΅Ρ, Π³ 340
- Π Π°Π·ΠΌΠ΅Ρ 3x13x19.8
- ΠΠ·Π΄Π°ΡΠ΅Π»ΡΡΡΠ²ΠΎ Headline
- ΠΠΎΠ΄ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ 2018
- ISBN 978-1-47-224161-0, 978-1-4722-4161-0
- ID ΡΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ° 2675267