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Hello Beautiful: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Ann Napolitano (Author), Maura Tierney (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
Editors' pick Best Books of the Year 2023
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?

“Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision.”—The Washington Post

ONE OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Vogue, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Post, She Reads, Bookreporter

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.

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  1. Listening Length
    15 hours and 6 minutes
  2. Author
    Ann Napolitano
  3. Narrator
    Maura Tierney
  4. Audible release date
    March 14, 2023
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  7. ASIN
    B0B7VC23QG
  8. Version
    Unabridged
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Listening Length 15 hours and 6 minutes
Author Ann Napolitano
Narrator Maura Tierney
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Audible.com Release Date March 14, 2023
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0B7VC23QG
Best Sellers Rank #249 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#13 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#14 in Family Life Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#23 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Customers find the storyline lovely, beautifully interwoven, and unexpected. They also describe the emotional tone as heartwarming, sometimes sad, and complicated. Readers find the characters captivating and compelled to stick to the end. They describe the content as insightful, true, and mysterious all at once. They praise the writing style as particularly well written and easy to read. Customers also describe it as an incredible story about love and family. However, some customers find the tone depressing and not stellar. Opinions are mixed on the pacing, with some finding it nice and flowing, while others say it's slow in the first half.

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506 customers mention "Storyline"480 positive26 negative

Customers find the storyline fascinating, touching, and sweet. They also say the themes are beautifully interwoven and important.

"...Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful...." Read more

"...I can say that the beauty of Ann Napolitano carefully crafted words, the images she brought to my mind's eye and the powerful feelings of love that..." Read more

"...Great, relatable realistic characters." Read more

"While this book was a decent read, I am perplexed by the number of overwhelmingly positive reviews for this book...." Read more

374 customers mention "Plot"279 positive95 negative

Customers find the plot of the book incredible, relatable, and well-plotted. They also say it's a true story of family, love, and forgiveness.

"...This book is a love story. It is about acceptance, heartbreak, forgiveness, and understanding. Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful...." Read more

"...words, the images she brought to my mind's eye and the powerful feelings of love that seemed to leap from the pages of Hello Beautiful, eventually..." Read more

"Incredible story about love and family and the ties that bind us, whether we want this connections or not. Great, relatable realistic characters." Read more

"...fully immerse myself in it on a recent vacation but was disappointed with both the story and the writing style...." Read more

259 customers mention "Writing style"213 positive46 negative

Customers find the writing style particularly well written, with many sentences, phrases, metaphors, and similes that make them stop to reread. They also appreciate the structure that creates a rhythm that increases reading enjoyment.

"...Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful...." Read more

"...This was NOT an easy book to read. I took several breaks but always came back...." Read more

"A book that i will recommend over and over again. Beautifully written with multiple viewpoints woven perfectly together to capture a story that’s so..." Read more

"...Ann Napolitano is a great story teller and a wonderful way with words. I enjoyed this book immensely...." Read more

214 customers mention "Characters"154 positive60 negative

Customers find the characters in the book captivated.

"...Readers are drawn right into this story and feel every emotion the characters experience...." Read more

"...I was intrigued by the depth of personality of each of the sisters Ann Napolitano created...." Read more

"...There were hardly any likable characters, with the possible exception of William's basketball friends It reads more like a soap opera than serious..." Read more

"...Great, relatable realistic characters." Read more

209 customers mention "Emotional tone"194 positive15 negative

Customers find the emotional tone of the book heartwarming, relatable, touching, and insightful. They also say the story exemplifies the strength of love and support from both family and friends. Customers also mention the book provides good thoughts, quotes, and life lessons. They say the interpersonal relationships are complicated.

"...This book is a love story. It is about acceptance, heartbreak, forgiveness, and understanding. Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful...." Read more

"Riveting reading, heartfelt and relatable. I'll read Edward nowLooking forward to another journey with Ann Napolitano. Thank you sincerely" Read more

"...heartwarming moments of tenderness and happiness, and devastating moments of sadness and loss that will have you alternating between laughing and..." Read more

"...A heartwarming and sometimes sad story, I even got angry a few times of what was going on...." Read more

48 customers mention "Content"36 positive12 negative

Customers find the book insightful, engrossing, and beautifully written. They also say the multiple viewpoints are woven perfectly together to capture a story that's full of warmth and empathy, laced with human uncertainties and questions. Readers say the family is well drawn and believable. They say the book is memorable, and mysterious all at once.

"...It is about acceptance, heartbreak, forgiveness, and understanding. Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful...." Read more

"...Beautifully written with multiple viewpoints woven perfectly together to capture a story that’s so difficult and relatable." Read more

"...perhaps over 1000 times and yet this story is strangely devoid of any evidence or conviction that there is much more than self love...." Read more

"...There are so many angles to relate to. The dimensions of being in love, loving others, and family unconditional love...." Read more

63 customers mention "Pacing"20 positive43 negative

Customers are mixed about the pacing. Some mention that the book flows at a nice pace, while others say that the first half of the book was slow and dragged out at the beginning.

"There were parts of this book that felt too slow, too plodding. And yet the overall tone and beauty of the writing carried me through...." Read more

"This book had interesting characters and was well written. It flowed a nice pace. it was touching and sweet and thoughtful...." Read more

"This is a great story of family and love. Started slow, but I was compelled by the story and couldn’t put the book down until the end...." Read more

"I liked the story, but it was a very slow read...." Read more

122 customers mention "Tone"33 positive89 negative

Customers find the tone depressing, disappointing, and repetitive. They also say the book is too unreal, saccharine, and abruptly ends. Readers also mention that it's not literature and not Oprah-caliber.

"...It was OK; not a complete waste of time, but definitely not a best book of the year." Read more

"...you that this book does contain self harm. This was not the best I ever read but it is no where near the worst. Definitely worth the read." Read more

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"A bit disappointing. Too ordinary, some depth as it pertains to William in his depression and recovery...." Read more

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Beautiful and heartaching
The Padavona sisters all have vastly different personalities; high achieving Julia, bookish romantic Sylvie, artsy and stubborn Cecilia and selfless nurturing Emeline; but their bond is seemingly unbreakable. William Waters, lost and introverted, grew up in a wildly different household, where overwhelming grief over the loss of his sister took hold of his parents’ lives, leaving him to fend for himself.When Julia meets William she is determined to become his wife and create the husband she’s always dreamed of, making him a project of sorts. He isn’t exactly sure where he fits into her plan or her family, and when tragedy strikes, the family’s bond is stretched to its limits.While it is a contemporary take on the classic Little Women, it’s absolutely its own magnificent story. It’s a beautiful but heavy and emotional read as each character’s story unfolds, and your heart aches as you find a place for each of them there.
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KWyly
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written…
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
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I love this story about the four Padavano sisters and their parents. Rose is the strong willed matriarch of the family. She strongly believes her husband, Charlie, just doesn’t quite measure up to what he could have been. Together, they have four daughters. Readers are drawn right into this story and feel every emotion the characters experience. Julie, the eldest of the four sisters, is a planner, a fixer, a girl who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She has a plan for her life and it doesn’t include living in a tiny house like where she was raised. Second daughter is quiet Sylvie, a reader who has worked in the public library since she was thirteen and sneaks kisses from the boys behind the shelves knowing she doesn’t want a boyfriend. She doesn’t take the boys seriously because she is just practicing for her one true love. The twins who are energetic, fun loving girls, round out the Padavano sisters. Then there is William a loner, ignored and never loved at home, socially awkward, always wondering where he fits in, how should he behave, and why he wasn’t enough for his parents. He only feels at home on the basketball court. Julie has decided William is just what she needs to get her life plan started. In alternating chapters, the four main characters tell their story with each chapter bearing the character’s name. Quoting Walt Whitman’s poetry and making comparisons of the four sisters to the sisters in Little Women by Alcott, this book is more than a family saga. This book is a love story. It is about acceptance, heartbreak, forgiveness, and understanding. Napolitano’s writing is thoughtful and beautiful. The story is deeply moving as each character grows and discover his or her truth and learns how powerful it is to live an authentic life. A five star read and on my list of favorite books in 2024!
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diana jaycox (my friends call me DJ)
4.0 out of 5 stars It improves as you read further...
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023
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Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, an Oprah's Book Club selection was read by this reviewer as part of a challenge. It would not have been my choice otherwise. As a rule I read to escape and find that many of contemporary bestsellers require me to be too much in the now and too much in my head. So it was no surprise that I struggled to get into this novel. It was too achingly real! The characters, their lives, their dreams and their struggles collided with my own and made me want to withdraw into my own darkness. I so wanted to send this book to the trash bin. Though, as a writer I challenged myself to read other writers ,especially those that are bestsellers. I needed to discover what makes other authors so appealing. How do other writers set-up their stories, build their settings, develop their characters. After a break, I came back to Hello Beautiful and read this as a writer as well as a reader. By applying a critiquing approach, I was able to achieve a degree of separation from the story. It was just enough to allow me to focus on the cadence of Ann Napolitano's words, to savor the style of her storytelling and to not get caught in my own angst and issues.

I began to see how Hello Beautiful shared so many elements with one of my all time favorite books , Little Women. I was intrigued by the depth of personality of each of the sisters Ann Napolitano created. Ann was able to show how each sister was a part of the others yet completely individuals. How they became who they were was beautifully and intricately choreographed by Ann Napolitano throughout the novel. And, adding William a lost soul, an outsider to the mix, was a brilliant catalyst for the sisters growth and development!

This was NOT an easy book to read. I took several breaks but always came back. This poignant story about family love and relationships, did end up stirring my heart and soul in ways, I admit, prefer to avoid. At times, I felt like I was on an emotional roller coaster. By the time I reached the climax of the story I was fully invested in the characters and their lives, the many highs and lows they experienced and yet were able to weather because they had each other.

I don't know how many other of Ann Napolitano's my tortured soul will be able to tolerate. I can say that the beauty of Ann Napolitano carefully crafted words, the images she brought to my mind's eye and the powerful feelings of love that seemed to leap from the pages of Hello Beautiful, eventually brought me to place of peace. I read the last page with a sigh. Then I closed my eyes and reflected on all my best memories of life in a large, obnoxiously in your face , flawed, loving family! All the highs and lows, the good times, the bad and the big loving mess of it all!

SIGH.
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Vicki
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant story
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024
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Incredible story about love and family and the ties that bind us, whether we want this connections or not. Great, relatable realistic characters.
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Ryanne M.
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2024
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A book that i will recommend over and over again. Beautifully written with multiple viewpoints woven perfectly together to capture a story that’s so difficult and relatable.
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BusyMomReader
3.0 out of 5 stars Book needed a better Editor!
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
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While this book was a decent read, I am perplexed by the number of overwhelmingly positive reviews for this book. I felt that the author was hitting me over the head repeatedly with the same themes. Most of the characters, but especially the sisters, were depicted as caricatures (the artist, the ambitious career woman, the book-worm, the sensitive one) rather than more nuanced development (like Rose). Based on the glowing reviews, I had "saved" this book to read when I could fully immerse myself in it on a recent vacation but was disappointed with both the story and the writing style. It was OK; not a complete waste of time, but definitely not a best book of the year.
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Mark B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Hello Brautiful
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2024
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Riveting reading, heartfelt and relatable. I'll read Edward now
Looking forward to another journey with Ann Napolitano. Thank you sincerely
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4.0 out of 5 stars Moving
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2024
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A moving book about the trials and tribulations that strong families seem to all face. I couldn’t stop reading this book. I wanted to know what happened next. Ann Napolitano is a great story teller and a wonderful way with words. I enjoyed this book immensely. I look forward to reading more of Napolitano’s work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Absolutely loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
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Great read! I absolutely loved it! And so did the women in my book club. The family dynamics are fascinating because there is such a strong bond between the women, and yet there are many dysfunctional things that happen. Abuse and neglect lead to mental illness in one of the main characters. It’s amazing how love seems to conquer all. I was in tears at the end of the book. It was that good.
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jb
5.0 out of 5 stars A vibrant history of 4 sisters and their family - engrossing
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2024
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This is a captivating story of the lives of four sisters and their intertwining relationships, told from their different perspectives, including those of their parents and the husband of the eldest sister. Short chapters, so easy to pick up and put down if reading time is interrupted. A very enjoyable read.
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Anya
5.0 out of 5 stars Adorei!
Reviewed in Brazil on May 27, 2024
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Gostei bastante do tema deste livro que fala da relação entre irmãos e entre pais mães e irmãos!
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Regino I.
5.0 out of 5 stars Buena impresión y bien empaquetado.
Reviewed in Mexico on November 28, 2023
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Sudhakar kadiyala
5.0 out of 5 stars A book on impotance of family relationships and friendships.
Reviewed in India on July 17, 2024
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The Padvanos family, Charlie & his wife Rosie stayed in a small town called Pilsen in Chicago along with their four daughters viz Julia,Sylvie,Cecelia & Emeline.Julia is ten months older to Sylvie & that they strongly bond together.They share every bit of information that happens in their life while holding no secrets between them.Similarly the bonding between Emeline and Cecelia who are twins is also remarkable.The four daughters always hold a common perspective reflecting an unbiased love for one another.As both Rosie & Charlie couldn't do their college, Rosie desired that her daughters do their college and lead a much happier life.Though Rosie's expectations of her daughters are unspoken but she did held a view of high stakes of them.She inculcated positive ideas in her daughters like telling tales of Saints to them & hanging photographs of the Saints on the walls in the house etc.She wished that Charlie could do something more to make the family financially stable & many a times she talked her way to bring the change in her husband's thinking but her efforts remained elusive.Charlie, who loved poetry, prefferd to live a simpler and non pretentious life.He believed that a person is more important than the job he holds.Julia, who understood her mother closely, always wished that she could do something for the family. She was able to secure a scholarship in Northwestern University and joined the college to complete her graduation. Sylvie, on the other hand, worked in a library & as being romantic at heart and interested in reading,read hundreds of books like Wuthering Heights,Anna Karenina etc.and fancied her soulmate similar to one of those characters. (someone like *Heathcliff *),She also read poetry and sometimes used to recite a line or two of Walt Whitman's poems to Charlie to impress him as Charlie adored Walt Whitman & often mentions him & his poetry.The twins Cecelia & Emmeline are into painting and caregiving respectively.
On the contrary to Padvano's siblings, we find another character, William Waters,who is raised by a grief-stricken parents.Their daughter Caroline, who was three years older to William, dies too young & the parents could not quite get out of that gloom.As a child William grew up feeling unwanted & neglected & enters into adulthood with a fractured past.He had an intrest in basketball that kept him away from his melancholy thoughts of being unwanted and most of the time he used to play alone.It's his basketball skills that secures him a scholarship at Northwestern University, where he joins for his graduation. Julia meets William at the university & that they both fall in love and later gets married.But Williams past & his love for basketball, couldn't quite fit into Julia's expectations of him and William's subsequent sucidal attempt, soon after the birth of their daughter,Alice forced her to think differently.Sylvie, who reads William's manuscripts earlier before,at the instance of Julia,understands him more deeply and emphasizes with his past.She gets drawn towards William & eventually gets married to him, when Julia shifts to New York with Alice.Sylvie's marriage to William distances Julia & the other three sisters. Earlier,Cecelia's getting pregnant without marriage, disappoints Rosie and her beliefs.Frustrated,she asks Cecelia to leave the house.When Charlie learns about the birth of his granddaughter,he visits the hospital where Cecelia delivers her baby, Isabella Rose Padvanoo.But unfortunately Charlie dies in the hallway at the hospital.After Charlie's death the good deeds he has done and the way he helped,people around Pilsen town came to the fore.Such small acts of kindness that the family never knew of Charlie, made them miss him even more.
Equally intriguing is that the charectar of William.After his marriage to Sylvie,he improved bit by bit.His friends Kent and Arsh too did their best to help William come out of his depression.He started enjoying his work & derived the pleasure of helping others. When he learned about Sylvie's disease and the limited time she had shocked William and made him come out of his cell.He, now wanted to do the best that he could for Sylvie.He understood how much Sylvie missed her sister Julia & with out a second thought he calls and informs her of Sylvie's critical condition.His sole intention was to see the joy at Padvanos home by bringing all the sisters together for which he felt that he was responsible.
It's the title of the book " Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano, which drew me to read the review and then my intrest followed with the mention of the poet Walt Whitman that made me purchase & read.The book begins with the beautiful lines of the poet from the "Song Of Myself" to stimulate the interest and made me eager to complete reading the book.Besides,we also experience the idea of Universal Brotherhood & a few traces of Whimanism and his idealogy, coming out through a few charecters in the book. At the hospital,Charlie's whispering of the lines from,"Song of Myself" into the ears of his newly born granddaughter -- "For every atom belonging to me as good belonging to you " ,is quite impressive.The book also highlights the influence of parents behavior on children & the psychological effects the children carry when they growup into adults.Overall the book is an extraordinary entertainment to read and enjoy while learning the importance of family,relationships, and friendships.
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Sudhakar kadiyala
5.0 out of 5 stars A book on impotance of family relationships and friendships.
Reviewed in India on July 17, 2024
The Padvanos family, Charlie & his wife Rosie stayed in a small town called Pilsen in Chicago along with their four daughters viz Julia,Sylvie,Cecelia & Emeline.Julia is ten months older to Sylvie & that they strongly bond together.They share every bit of information that happens in their life while holding no secrets between them.Similarly the bonding between Emeline and Cecelia who are twins is also remarkable.The four daughters always hold a common perspective reflecting an unbiased love for one another.As both Rosie & Charlie couldn't do their college, Rosie desired that her daughters do their college and lead a much happier life.Though Rosie's expectations of her daughters are unspoken but she did held a view of high stakes of them.She inculcated positive ideas in her daughters like telling tales of Saints to them & hanging photographs of the Saints on the walls in the house etc.She wished that Charlie could do something more to make the family financially stable & many a times she talked her way to bring the change in her husband's thinking but her efforts remained elusive.Charlie, who loved poetry, prefferd to live a simpler and non pretentious life.He believed that a person is more important than the job he holds.Julia, who understood her mother closely, always wished that she could do something for the family. She was able to secure a scholarship in Northwestern University and joined the college to complete her graduation. Sylvie, on the other hand, worked in a library & as being romantic at heart and interested in reading,read hundreds of books like Wuthering Heights,Anna Karenina etc.and fancied her soulmate similar to one of those characters. (someone like *Heathcliff *),She also read poetry and sometimes used to recite a line or two of Walt Whitman's poems to Charlie to impress him as Charlie adored Walt Whitman & often mentions him & his poetry.The twins Cecelia & Emmeline are into painting and caregiving respectively.
On the contrary to Padvano's siblings, we find another character, William Waters,who is raised by a grief-stricken parents.Their daughter Caroline, who was three years older to William, dies too young & the parents could not quite get out of that gloom.As a child William grew up feeling unwanted & neglected & enters into adulthood with a fractured past.He had an intrest in basketball that kept him away from his melancholy thoughts of being unwanted and most of the time he used to play alone.It's his basketball skills that secures him a scholarship at Northwestern University, where he joins for his graduation. Julia meets William at the university & that they both fall in love and later gets married.But Williams past & his love for basketball, couldn't quite fit into Julia's expectations of him and William's subsequent sucidal attempt, soon after the birth of their daughter,Alice forced her to think differently.Sylvie, who reads William's manuscripts earlier before,at the instance of Julia,understands him more deeply and emphasizes with his past.She gets drawn towards William & eventually gets married to him, when Julia shifts to New York with Alice.Sylvie's marriage to William distances Julia & the other three sisters. Earlier,Cecelia's getting pregnant without marriage, disappoints Rosie and her beliefs.Frustrated,she asks Cecelia to leave the house.When Charlie learns about the birth of his granddaughter,he visits the hospital where Cecelia delivers her baby, Isabella Rose Padvanoo.But unfortunately Charlie dies in the hallway at the hospital.After Charlie's death the good deeds he has done and the way he helped,people around Pilsen town came to the fore.Such small acts of kindness that the family never knew of Charlie, made them miss him even more.
Equally intriguing is that the charectar of William.After his marriage to Sylvie,he improved bit by bit.His friends Kent and Arsh too did their best to help William come out of his depression.He started enjoying his work & derived the pleasure of helping others. When he learned about Sylvie's disease and the limited time she had shocked William and made him come out of his cell.He, now wanted to do the best that he could for Sylvie.He understood how much Sylvie missed her sister Julia & with out a second thought he calls and informs her of Sylvie's critical condition.His sole intention was to see the joy at Padvanos home by bringing all the sisters together for which he felt that he was responsible.
It's the title of the book " Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano, which drew me to read the review and then my intrest followed with the mention of the poet Walt Whitman that made me purchase & read.The book begins with the beautiful lines of the poet from the "Song Of Myself" to stimulate the interest and made me eager to complete reading the book.Besides,we also experience the idea of Universal Brotherhood & a few traces of Whimanism and his idealogy, coming out through a few charecters in the book. At the hospital,Charlie's whispering of the lines from,"Song of Myself" into the ears of his newly born granddaughter -- "For every atom belonging to me as good belonging to you " ,is quite impressive.The book also highlights the influence of parents behavior on children & the psychological effects the children carry when they growup into adults.Overall the book is an extraordinary entertainment to read and enjoy while learning the importance of family,relationships, and friendships.
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Margit
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book!
Reviewed in Germany on May 29, 2024
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Makes you think about the meaning of life and the importance of love ❤️
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