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Ann Napolitano’s New Novel, “Hello Beautiful,” Is the 100th Pick of Oprah’s Book Club


The three of them celebrated with a threesome conversation. After that, Napolitano finally came home and told her husband – who never doubted her writing career, even during difficult times – why it took her so long to take out the trash.

“Ann put on a coat and walked in and said, ‘Oprah Winfrey just called me,’” Wilde recalled in an email. “Her eyes were wide with adrenaline, the opposite of her default steadfastness. The first thought that came to mind was ‘Yeah, that makes sense.’”

He saw how “Hello Beauty” overcame Napolitano. Writing “Dear Edward,” she said, was like entering a separate, fun world, then leaving when she felt like it. The Padavano sisters took a different approach: they took Napolitano, demanding attention, bringing with them the saints, their coffee, and their chaos.

“It was a very stressful experience,” Napolitano said. “The story flows from me. It’s like grabbing the fender of a car, crashing into town.

Napolitano begins “Hello Beauty” in April 2020, the loneliest chapter of the pandemic, a time of fear and isolation. That was also the month her father died.

Napolitano said: “We couldn’t see him when he was dying and we couldn’t gather, like so many others. “I was trying to find connection and love, and I needed that home with those loud sisters. I really feel like I need this book.”

Winfrey echoes a version of the same sentiment. “I felt less alone thanks to books during that time of isolation,” she said, describing how, “as a girl growing up in Mississippi and Milwaukee, all the times I felt I felt alienated and unappreciated, it was the books – “A Especially Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” that made me feel connected to the world.”

She continued, “And so, the original word. The power of words to transform our own feelings and beliefs into what we can? I don’t think anything surpasses that.

Sound produced by Tally Abecassis.

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