divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood by rebecca wells

Wells goes on to tell how Little Altars was promoted by loving friends and family, enthusiastic booksellers and librarians, and how readers' letters testifying to the book's importance in their lives compensated her for the book's minimal financial success. It is only when 'you, the reader, encounter the words on the page,' she explains, that 'the alphabet has meaning. The bulk of the introduction rhapsodizes on the 'intimacy that exists between us, writer and reader' (vii), which Wells credits with her success. As she welcomed fans of Divine Secrets 'back' to the first incarnation of Thornton, Wells simultaneously acknowledged her fantastic commercial achievements and denied their importance. Hoping to capitalize on its success, in September HarperPerennial released a new edition of the 'prequel,' Wells's 1992 short story collection Little Altars Everywhere. rainbow eccentricities' and 'the sweet and sad and goofy monkey-dance of life,' Divine Secrets proved to be an enormous hit.

Characterized by its jacket blurbs as 'a big, blowzy romp through. Rebecca Wells's first novel tells the story of Vivi and Sidda Walker, a charismatic alcoholic mother and her overachieving but love-starved daughter, chronicling their lives in Thornton, the small Louisiana town in which Vivi and her friends, the wise and wacky Ya-Yas, rule the social order. In February 1998, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood stole onto the New York Times best-seller list, where it would luxuriate for 68 consecutive weeks. The innocence of reading is a pretty myth, but our time grows very belated and such innocence is revealed as only another insipidity.

Divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood by rebecca wells