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This is how a family keeps a magic formula...and how that secret eventually ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever before after...until gladly ever before after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four males welcome the newest person in their family, no one is surprised it's another baby young man. At least their large, loving, chaotic family is aware of what to expect. But Claude is nothing like his brothers. One day he places on a dress and won't take it off. He desires to bring a purse to kindergarten. He desires mane long enough to sit on. When he matures, Claude says, he desires to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren't panicked at first. Kids proceed through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the complete family is keeping Claude's magic formula. Until one day it explodes. Laurie Frankel's THIS IS ONE WAY It Always Is is an audiobook about revelations, transformations, fairy stories, and family. And it's really about the ways this is how it always is: Change is actually hard and miraculous and hard again; parenting is actually a leap into the unfamiliar with crossed fingers and full hearts; children develop but not always matching to plan. And families with secrets do not get to keep them forever.
