This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from 7:00 to 8:00 pm
The club will meet in person at the library.
"Frankel's slightly askew voice...keeps the narrative sharp and surprising. This is a wonderfully contradictory story—heartwarming and generous, yet written with a wry sensibility." (Publisher's Weekly- starred review)
When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect.
But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
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. (Book Browse)
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This book is available at the library, or visit the Doylestown Bookshop to get your copy and receive a 20% discount. Just mention the Friends of the Doylestown Library Book Club,
