{"product_id":"1250088569-this_is_how_it_always_is_a_novel","title":"This Is How It Always Is: A Novel","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e―Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’s Top 10 Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmazon’s Best Books of 2017: Top 20\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmazon’s Best Literature and Fiction of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBustle’s 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePopSugar’s Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRefinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBookBrowse’s The 20 Best Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 100 Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.” ―Liane Moriarty, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBig Little Lies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is how\u003c\/i\u003e a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e children change…and then change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurie Frankel's\u003ci\u003e This Is How It Always Is \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLGBTQ+\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Flatiron Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":45262571929790,"sku":"1250088569-4","price":13.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/41XzAGEEtHL._SL500.jpg?v=1754100105","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1250088569-this_is_how_it_always_is_a_novel","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}