This Is How It Always Is
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This is how a family keeps a how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children 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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Frankel, L., & Zackman, G. (2017). This Is How It Always Is. Unabridged. Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Frankel, Laurie and Gabra, Zackman. 2017. This Is How It Always Is. Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Frankel, Laurie and Gabra, Zackman, This Is How It Always Is. Macmillan Audio, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Frankel, Laurie, and Gabra Zackman. This Is How It Always Is. Unabridged. Macmillan Audio, 2017.
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| title | This Is How It Always Is |
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| duration | 11h 6m 41s |
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| dateLastUpdated | Mar 25, 2025 06:15:18 PM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Jul 02, 2025 10:27:22 PM |
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