This is NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Kia Miakana Tis. We're wrapping up this week's

collection of books with what I'm calling Family Matters Friday. We've got two books

focusing on the ties that bind and the complexities that emerge as we age, including a

novel about wealthy sisters in Brooklyn trying to make sense of their privilege.

We'll get into that book in a little bit. But first, a man raised inside the resounding grief of his

sister's death finds the love he always wished for when he marries into a family of four sisters.

However, the shadows of his past begin to reemerge when he and his wife become new

parents. The plot unfolds in Ann Napolitano's new novel, Hello Beautiful. Here she is with

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William Waters finds a missing piece of life when he meets Julia Potavanaugh in college and marries into a family of four sisters.

He'd grown up feeling that his parents had only one child. And an Ann Napolitano's memorable phrase, it wasn't him.

The embrace of sisters, often comforting, sometimes stifling, forgiving, forgetting, and going

on is at the heart of her new novel, Hello Beautiful.

Anne Napolitano, author of the bestseller, Dear Edward, which is now an Apple Plus series, joins us from New York.

Thanks so much for being with us.

Thank you so much for having me.

Tell us about William.

He has to grow up with the darkness, doesn't he?

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