AUTHOR CHAT with Ann Napolitano - Hello Beautiful

📹 Come join me and Ann Napolitano to find out why Oprah chose Hello Beautiful as her 100th Book Club pick! “This sumptuous family saga is one of those rare novels whose singular characters are so beautifully rendered, it’s as if they’re your best friends, and you’re grateful to be in their orbit.” Oprah Daily

😭 “Hello Beautiful will make you weep buckets because you come to care so deeply about the characters and their fates. . . . [Napolitano] compels us to contemplate the complex tapestry of family love that can, despite grief and loss, still knit us together. She helps us see ourselves—and each other—whole.”—The Washington Post

📝 Ann give so much of herself in this novel which she started during COVID. Taking the shortest amount of time to write to date, she discusses themes covering friendship, mental health, family, bias, love, her passion for writing - her "pilot light" ( in my opinion this transcends into every fiber of her being), authors and books she loves that have changed her, character development, research, and of course basketball.

♥️ From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?

🏠 William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos.

💔 But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?

🖼️ An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.