They persuade Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of girlhood momentos entitled 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.' Sixty years later, they're 'bucking seventy,' and still making waves. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. But Vivi's intrepid gang of life-long girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.

Siddalee, a successful theatre director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend Connor McGill. When Siddalee and Vivi Walker, an utterly original mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a 'tap-dancing child abuser,' the fall-out is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. For one fleeting, luminous moment, Sidda Walker knows there has never been a time she has not been loved. Tenderness flows down from the moon and up from the earth. Sidda stands in the moonlight and lets the Blessed Mother love every hair on her six-year-old head. She waves down at Sidda like she has just spotted an old buddy. She kicks her splendid legs like the moon is her swing and the sky, her front porch. In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. Near a huge, live oak tree on the edge of her father's cotton fields, Sidda looks up into the sky. She walks barefoot into the humid night, moonlight on her freckled shoulders. Sidda is a girl again in the hot heart of Louisiana, the bayou world of Catholic saints and voodoo queens.

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.The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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. “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.” “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.”

“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.”

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