Book Review: This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel

brucesbiblepage

Aug 31

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Kindle

A lot to unpack here
Quite a story. I wondered what could happen when you have a fifth son named Claude. Would you secretly wish he had been a girl? What happens when he wants to wear a dress on the first day of school? I really liked how the author handled these growing up different things. The best line in the whole book: "We are all weird".

View all my reviews

Amazon

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.

#Outreach: That the world may know

#Prayer Focus: Pray for Our Prodigals

#Praise the Lord