This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel is the New York Times Bestselling author of three novels, THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS, GOODBYE FOR NOW, and THE ATLAS OF LOVE. She lives with her family on a very steep hill in Seattle, but she's an east coaster at heart. She is also a baseball fan, a soup maker, a theater lover, a yoga practicer, a comma expert, and a huge reader. Welcome!!

出版者:Flatiron Books

作者:Laurie Frankel

页数:336

出版时间:2017-1-24

价格:USD 25.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781250088550

图书标签:小说transgender美国畅销书父母性别意识性别英文原版

This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.

This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.

This is how children change…and then change the world.

This 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.

When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.

Rosie 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.

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.

"This is a novel everyone should read. It’s brilliant. It’s bold. And it’s time.”

―Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Banquet of Consequences

用户评价

一眼读上去，似乎讲的是一个女孩子在男孩子身体里的故事。但是讲得远不止这些。为人父母，在这个故事里也是很沉重的话题。还有就是九九归一的如何为人。

文字部分：从句真的好多，如果用词再难一些快拼GRE长难句了。但其实它的语法结构又没有GRE那么复杂，因为作者的思想不像科学论文那样复杂所以以平行结构为主。我注意到的最长的一句话整整半页纸，220字。讲得难听点，整本书都是如此，啰嗦重复、可有可无、可删可减的地方实在太多，多到因为文风的缘故好好的一本书读起来痛苦到从4星到3星。 内容部分：一本LGBT的书，读者在美国敢说不好？说不好的是不是恐同？是不是反多样化？我只能说，泰国的部分真的很假，读着读着经常出戏。个人感觉写得最好的是前半本和为人父母的心得的部分，所以在这些部分花的阅读时间也最少。越到后面越假越无聊越不想读……在作者的后记里面她不断声明这不是她的亲身经历，我觉得实在多此一举，因为假到宣称是亲身经历我都没法相信。

虽然是在粉饰太平，为流畅而合理，但是还是打个五星，愿那些被伤害的人，现实的最后，是个平静的结局

能在5.17这天读到这本书，感觉好幸运啊，当时读到开头发现那小男孩喜欢穿公主裙就觉得…是不是读到bl文了，没想到比想象中更温馨的文，文中来自父母、家人的支持比想象中要给人更强大的温馨感，柔柔的包围你，这本书是讲述小男孩在成长的过程中，在家人的支持下分别体验了男孩-女孩-男孩的生活后，最后决定进行改变性别手术的故事，文笔方面非常温馨，只是在大中国恐怕难以取得如美国亚马逊畅销书这般的成绩。

虽然是在粉饰太平，为流畅而合理，但是还是打个五星，愿那些被伤害的人，现实的最后，是个平静的结局