Ann Napolitano's much-anticipated Hello Beautiful pulls the reader into a warm, loving familial atmosphere in what has been described as an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Sweeping and vast, it follows the Padavano family from the 1980s up until 2008, cataloging their attempts to grow, change, forgive and find love within the bounds of their very tight-knit group. Switching between points of view, Hello Beautiful illustrates the complicated inner lives of the characters and reveals the dimension and depth that operate at the core of their arguments, rifts, broken hearts and battles for forgiveness. At the center are the relationships between sisters Julia, Sylvie, Cecelia and Emeline as they grapple with William, a strange newcomer to the family. He brings a foreign introspection into their world, imposing on them the same questions that have tormented him his entire life: "...