Little Altars Everywhere: A Novel (The Ya-Ya Series)

ISBN: 0060759968

Author: Wells, Rebecca

Condition: Used

Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The authors gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.- Seattle WeeklyThe companion novel to Rebecca Wellss celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodWho 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.