Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A
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"A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter."
—Washington Post
"Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells."
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women's fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven't yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?
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Rebecca Wells. (2009). Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A. HarperCollins.
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"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter." — Washington Post
"An insightful, delicious novel." — Oregonian
"A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes trying to survive marriage, motherhood, and pain, relying always on eah other... A novel of wide reach and lots of colors: fun in a breathless sort of way." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Divine Secrets is funny, funny, funny." — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"One heck of a rollicking good read..." — Columbus Dispatch
"An entertaining and engrossing novel filled with humor and heartbreak... Readers will envy Vivi her Ya-Ya 'sisters' and Sidda her lover, who is one of the most appealing men to be found in recent mainstream fiction." — Library Journal
"Hard to resist...Wells offers up some appealing characters and good stories." — Chicago Tribune
"Every woman should have a pack of buddies like the Ya-Yas." — Albuquerque Journal
"Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells does in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." — Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An enjoyable novel with much to recommend it... It is rich stuff and Wells tells it well." — Seattle Times
"Unforgettable... By turns comic and poignant, Wells' latest entry fulfills the promise of her award–winning debut novel, Little Altars Everywhere. It speaks eloquently to what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a wife — and somehow, at last, a person." — Charlotte Observer
"Wells' Louisiana is thick with sensual excesses — bayou French, pralines and sour cream cookies, crayfish etouffee, honeysuckle–smothered trellises, camellias and jasmine... In Divine Secrets, you can hear the ice cubes clink on every page... Wells' book succeeds marvelously." — Seattle Weekly
"Sensitive, spellbinding... a wonderfully irreverent look at life in small–town Louisiana from the thirties on up through the eyes of the Ya–Yas, a gang of merry, smart, brave, poignant, and unforgettable godesses." — Booklist
"Readers who like their books about the human condition spiced witha Southern drawl won't want to miss this one." — Mississippi Sun Herald
"The sweet and sad and goofy monkey–dance of life, as performed by a bevy of unforgettable Southern belles in a verdant garden of moonlit prose. Poignantly coo–coo, the Ya-Yas (and their Petites Ya-Yas) will prance, priss, ponder and party their way into your sincere affection." — Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
"I read the first two pages and I said... I haven't heard a white woman talk like this in literature before." — Terry McMillan, San Francisco Chronicle
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May 20, 1996
Carrying echoes of both Fannie Flagg and Pat Conroy, Wells's second novel continues the story of Siddalee Walker, introduced in Little Altars Everywhere (1992). When Sidda asks her mother, the aging belle Vivi, for help in researching women's friendships, Vivi sends her daughter a scrapbook. From this artifact of Vivi's own lifelong friendship with three women collectively known as "the Ya-Ya's," and from Sidda's response to it, a story unfolds regarding a dark period in Vivi and Sidda's past that plagues their present relationship. While anecdotes about the Ya-Ya's (such as the riotous scene at a Shirley Temple look-alike contest) are often very amusing, the narrative is beset by superficial characterization and forced colloquialisms. Told through several narrative vehicles and traveling through space and time from Depression-era Louisiana to present-day Seattle, this novel attempts to wed a folksy homespun tale to a soul-searching examination of conscience. But while Wells's ambition is admirable and her talent undeniable, she never quite makes this difficult marriage work. $50,000 ad/promo; author tour. (May) FYI: HarperPerennial will publish the paperback edition of Little Altars Everywhere, which won the Western States Book Award, in May.
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October 7, 2002
Veteran narrator Ivey is magnificent in her performance of Wells's sprawling, delicious novel of lifelong female friendship and mother-daughter tension and reconciliation. When Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, accidentally lets slip in an interview some less-than-flattering truths about her mother, Vivi, the ever-dramatic Vivi declares "You are dead to me!" But when Sidda reads Vivi's scrapbook detailing seven decades of friendship with her lifelong pals, the irrepressible Ya-Yas, she begins to understand her vivacious, unconventional, often difficult but never boring mother in ways she never has before. Ivey creates distinctive voices for each one of the multitude of characters—not an easy task, since most of them are female and Southern. There's the four Ya-Yas, both as young, giggly girls and then as elderly women; Sidda as a child and a woman; and a plethora of relatives, siblings and friends. Ivey performs each character with conviction and emotion. Through her performance, listeners can see the characters, colorful events and the tangle and friction of close-knit, complicated relationships. Based on the HarperCollins hardcover.
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