Spring Bay Bookies

Program Type:

Book Clubs

Age Group:

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

Bookies

The Spring Bay Bookies is an adult book club that focuses on literary and women's fiction.  Readers who share a love of books and laughter are always welcome, but be warned - discussions are sure to get off the beaten path from time to time!  

The Bookies meet on the first Monday* of the month at 6:00 pm at IPDPL - Spring Bay.

*Regularly scheduled meetings that fall on holidays when the library is closed are routinely rescheduled to the following Monday.

 

This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel

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.

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.

Join us to discuss this engaging and thought-provoking novel.