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Original Title: | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
ISBN: | 006075995X (ISBN13: 9780060759957) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Ya Yas #1 |
Setting: | United States of America |
Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2000), American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1999) |
Rebecca Wells
Paperback | Pages: 383 pages Rating: 3.82 | 512377 Users | 4238 Reviews
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Title | : | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas #1) |
Author | : | Rebecca Wells |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
Published | : | December 7th 2004 by Harper Perennial (first published 1997) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Audiobook |
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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.Rating Containing Books Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas #1)
Ratings: 3.82 From 512377 Users | 4238 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas #1)
When I was pregnant with my oldest child, a girl, I had a dream. In my dream, I was in the hospital, postpartum, holding not the one child I knew that I had been pregnant with . . . but two children. Both girls. One of my baby girls was quiet, observant, peaceful. She had big, open eyes that reflected her big, open heart. The other child was physically larger than the other baby and it's complete opposite. Ugly, angry, needy. I sat there holding both babies in their swaddling clothes while theI loved the 2002 movie, I really don't know why I loved it when it's so dramatic and sad but it has a sort of sad charm to it. I must get a copy of this book. I found Vivi so sad yet... I don't know, interesting, the whole friends, sisterhood thing was beautiful.
This book just wasn't for me. I read this for the reading Rush for the prompt to read and watch a book to movie adaptation. So, even though I didn't really enjoy the book oh, I am so going to take the time to watch the movie. But I'm not happy.
Has anyone else read this book and thought it sucked? I was very disappointed in it. I started off excited to read this book and that's where that enthusiasm left me.To start - Wow religious! There are some books that make me go - hmm you're religious - I get your sense of peace from it. Or I can also read it and go ok you are one of the crazy religious people that are scary. This book was just like STOP TALKING ABOUT RELIGION!!! No one practiced what was preached and so I don't really
I must be a masochist of sorts to have put myself through this book. The word that constantly came to mind when i read this book was 'contrived'. Everything felt so contrived about this book. The characters, especially the four primary members of ya-ya. Each had a character that seemed to have been pushed on them, and each of their conversations played out like a badly rehearsed school-play. Very mechanical, and very predictable. There seemed to be a lot of characters and information in the book
Wow, this book got some harsh reviews! I will agree that the whole southern friendship pact was over the top, but I think that Wells was trying to present a rare friendship and an outlandish character in Viviane. These girls grew up without air conditioning and television; they needed some pretty big distractions just to cope with the heat and the boredom!My mother in law grew up in Georgia, and remembers some pretty crazy characters from her youth and some wild stories in her own family. Having
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