Little Altars Everywhere

"Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author''s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved."-- Seattle Weekly The companion novel to Rebecca Wells''s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda--a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family--leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere is an insightful, piercing, and unflinching evocation of childhood, a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith, and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.

About the author

Writer, actor, and playwright Rebecca Wells is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ya-Yas in Bloom, Little Altars Everywhere, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which was made into a feature film. A native of Louisiana, she now lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Wells, Wells Rebecca
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2005
• EAN: 9780060759964
• ISBN: 978-0-06-075996-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Ya-Ya Series; The Ya-Ya Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Short Stories, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, US South, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Sagas, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: Southern, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Literature / General Fiction