01216cam a2200277 4500 445973964 TxAuBib 20190206120000.0 160919s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016037633 9781250088550 hardcover 1250088550 hardcover DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Frankel, Laurie. This is how it always is / Laurie Frankel. First edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2017. 327 pages ; 25 cm. This 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. 20190206. Transgender children Fiction. Parents of transgender children Fiction. Families Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Domestic fiction.