Hello Beautiful is the artfully crafted story of complex multi-generational
familial and romantic relationships, told from the perspectives of multiple
characters.
This structure highlights the book’s message
that a change in perspective is often necessary to unravel the difficult truths
of our own stories. The Chicagoland setting was a bonus for me.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
“Hello Beautiful is exactly that: beautiful, perceptive, wistful. It’s a story of family and friendship, of how the people we are bound to can also set us free. I loved it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
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…
This
recently published biography offers a far more nuanced view of King than I had
previously.
By accessing newly available resources and utilizing new research
techniques such as computer-assisted textual analysis, the author reveals
aspects of King’s life that make him more human (e.g., a history of plagiarism,
an aversion to allowing women to assume leadership roles in the civil rights
movement) but also show his resilience.
When I finished this book, I found
myself in awe of what he accomplished, flaws and all, in a life that lasted
only 39 years.
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.
In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.
He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with…
This is another great tale of complex, multigenerational family
and romantic relationships, but this one is set in Kerala, not Chicagoland!
The
novel tells the story of one family’s tragic destiny and allows us to
understand that destinies can be changed. The novel also gives us insight into an
Indian ethno-demographic group, the St. Thomas Christians, whose origins date
back to the 1st century when Thomas the Apostle evangelized in the
Kerala region.
So, a lot of great
history and family dynamics, with a good dose of medical knowledge, as we learn to disentangle the various threads related to the deaths of family members across
several generations.
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…
When COVID-19 hit, businesses had to respond
almost instantaneously, shifting employees to remote work, repairing broken
supply chains, and keeping pace with dramatically fluctuating customer demand. They
were forced to adapt to a confluence of multiple disruptions inextricably
linked to a longer-term, ongoing digital disruption.
This book shows that
companies that use disruption as an opportunity for innovation emerge from it
stronger. Companies that merely attempt to "weather the storm" until
things go back to normal (or the next normal), on the other hand, miss an opportunity
to thrive.
The book argues that transformation is not a
one-and-done event, but a continuous process of adapting to a volatile and
uncertain environment and offers a framework for understanding disruption and
tools for navigating it.
