Join us online on Zoom for our June discussion!

Stubborn Beauty Brewing at 180 Johnson St, Middletown, CT currently has online ordering and curbside pick-up. Order to go and enjoy at home during the discussion! 

Zoom link sent out 1 hour ahead of time. Please register to receive the link!

The June title is This Is How It Always is, by Laurie Frankel. E-copies are available at www.russelllibrary.org

From Goodreads: "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.

Discussion will be facilitated by Christy Billings. Questions? cbillings@russelllibrary.org

Our thanks again to Stubborn Beauty for being a partner with us. This event is sponsored by The Friends of the Russell Library.