One for the Books: It’s all in the family

One for the Books: It’s all in the family

- Mary Louise Ruehr

Some recent family-oriented dramas pack quite an emotional punch.

“Hello Beautiful” by Ann Napolitano is Oprah Winfrey’s 100th book club pick. It covers the years 1960 to 2008, but much of it takes place in the 1970s and 1980s in Boston, Chicago, and New York. And it has such well-drawn characters, you’ll think you know them.

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