Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
4/5
The Dial Press March 14, 2023
William Waters grows up in a house silenced by grief and arrives at college near Chicago with basketball as his only refuge. There he meets Julia Padavano, the eldest of four inseparable sisters, and is drawn into their loud, loving family. Over the decades that follow, a painful break tests how far the sisters' loyalty to one another can stretch.
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A big-hearted family saga with Little Women in its DNA: four sisters, one quiet outsider and decades of love, ambition and grief. Napolitano is generous to every character, even the ones making terrible choices, and the sisters' bond is the real love story. The pace is unhurried and it is heavy going in places. Content note: depression and a suicide attempt. Four worms — a book-club pick with plenty to talk about.
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