Our staff facilitator chooses both fiction and nonfiction titles. Island Book's open book club meets the last Thursday of every month at 7:30pm. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever. 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. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.Ĭlaude's parents Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. In April, our Open Book Club will read and discuss This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.Ĭlaude is five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches.
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