{"product_id":"this-is-how-it-always-is","title":"This Is How It Always Is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy: Laurie Frankel | Paperback | Contemporary Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThis is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how children change…and then change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"That's What She Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67650850914456,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/4725\/4680\/files\/this-is-how-it-always-is-1.jpg?v=1791255353","url":"https:\/\/ohthatswhatsheread.com\/products\/this-is-how-it-always-is","provider":"That's What She Read","version":"1.0","type":"link"}