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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060928339
ISBN: 0060928336
Label: Perennial
Manufacturer: Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: May 07, 1997
Publisher: Perennial
Studio: Perennial
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Editorial Review:
Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn.
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." As Sidda struggles to analyze her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood may call to mind Prince of Tides in its unearthing of family darkness; in its unforgettable heroines and irrepressible humor and female loyalty, it echoes Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Typical Chick Read
This book follows the typical chick flick read. Didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Too predictable.
Rating:  - The secrets of the popular girls
As this bestselling novel opens Sidda, a 40 something successful theater director, is in the midst of a feud with her mother. Her mother, Vivi, had disowned her after Sidda had made public some family secrets. Fortunately for them both Vivi's lifelong friends, the 'Ya-Ya's, had urged Vivi to send Sidda their scrapbook to allow her into their lives to better understand where they, and Sidda herself had come from. As Sidda begins to delve into the Ya-Ya's secrets she unearths scraps of their past, ... Read More
Rating:  - Utterly unlikeable
This book is supposed to be funny. This book is supposed to make you cry. The only thing you may laugh and cry at is the notion that this book is worthy of any real emotion evoked in the reader. It's a book about boring, utterly selfish women who live their lives for themselves and ONLY for themselves. Children? Well who are their children to demand any special devotion from these women? No, these women deem themselves extremely special, above everyone. Above their children. Vivi doesn't want ... Read More
Rating: - I'm glad I bought this for 10 cents at a flea market
I'm only on page 83 and I'm about to ditch the book.
It's not engaging. I can't relate to the characters. Their "adventures" are trite. The way they relate to each other is not realistic. If the main character, Sidda, was as badly abused as she implies, there is no reason for her to idolize her mother the way she does. The plot is disjointed, jumping from Sidda's narration to the mother's memories, without any kind of clear transition.
Furthermore, the French is just AWFUL. You'd think ... Read More
Rating: - Divine Metaphor
Read this book cover-to-cover for an in-depth look at the personal cost of reconciling difficult relationships.
If you lean toward standard Christianity you'll likely be distracted by the book's decidedly extra-Christian faith struggles. Readers who lean toward a more ecumenical understanding of God-is-love will appreciate the personal, private rituals the characters develop as much as for help in coping with pain as for connecting with something--anything--beyond the pain of the present. ... Read More
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