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    "description": "This is how a family keeps a secret\u2026and how that secret ends up keeping them.\n\nThis is how a family lives happily ever after\u2026until happily ever after becomes complicated.\n\nThis is how children change\u2026and then change the world.\n\nThis is Claude. He\u2019s 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.\n\nWhen he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.\n\nRosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They\u2019re just not sure they\u2019re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude\u2019s secret. Until one day it explodes.\n\nLaurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it\u2019s 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\u2019t get to keep them forever.",
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