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"""A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes."" --Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter."" --Washington Post ""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."" --Richmond Times-Dispatch 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. 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. If you haven't yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?"

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"""A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""A wonderfully irreverent look at life in small-town Louisiana from the thirties on up to the present through the eyes of the Ya-Yas, a gang of merry, smart, brave, poignant, and unforgettable goddesses."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""An insightful, delicious novel."" -- ""Oregonian"" ""Ivey is magnificent in her performance of Wells' sprawling, delicious novel of lifelong female friendship and mother-daughter tension and reconciliation...Ivey performs each character with conviction and emotion. Through her performance, listeners can see the characters, colorful events, and the tangle and friction of close-knit, complicated relationships."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""This is the sweet and sad and goofy monkey-dance of life, as performed by a bevy of unforgettable Southern belles in a verdant garden of moonlit prose. Poignantly coo-coo, the Ya-Yas...will prance, priss, ponder, and party their way into your sincere affection."" -- ""Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"" ""Wells' voice is uniquely her own, funny and generous and full of love and heartbreak, in that grand Louisiana literary tradition of transforming family secrets into great stories."" -- ""New Orleans Times-Picayune"""

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Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and New York Times bestselling author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, Ya-Yas in Bloom, and The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, was born in Louisiana. While many fans assume her work is autobiographical, Wells maintains that her stories are just that--stories. Little Altars Everywhere, which won the Western States Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1999 Adult Trade ABBY Award, have given Wells a dominant place in American literature. She lives in Washington State with her husband and her King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Mercy. Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and New York Times bestselling author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, Ya-Yas in Bloom, and The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, was born in Louisiana. While many fans assume her work is autobiographical, Wells maintains that her stories are just that--stories. Little Altars Everywhere, which won the Western States Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1999 Adult Trade ABBY Award, have given Wells a dominant place in American literature. She lives in Washington State with her husband and her King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Mercy.

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