Books and Cooks November 1998
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Our rating: 3.17 cups of tea!
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Discussion date: Saturday, November 21, 1998, 5:00PM
Discussion place: Thomas'
Menu: Thanksgiving dinner: duck, fish, potatos, pies, frozen cranberry torte, and more.
Washington Post — "A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter."
Book Description (from Amazon.com)
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. "But Wells' voice is uniquely her own, funny and generous and full of love and heartbreak, in that grand Louisiana literary tradition of transforming family secrets into great stories" (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
www.ya-ya.com: Ga-Ga for Ya-Yas, Official Rebecca Wells site.
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