Divine Secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood: A Novel - Softcover

"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter."--Washington Post

"Divine Secrets is funny, funny, funny."--Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

"An entertaining and engrossing novel filled with humor and heartbreak... Readers will envy Vivi her Ya-Ya 'sisters' and Sidda her lover, who is one of the most appealing men to be found in recent mainstream fiction."--Library Journal

"Hard to resist...Wells offers up some appealing characters and good stories."--Chicago Tribune

"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 does in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"An enjoyable novel with much to recommend it... It is rich stuff and Wells tells it well."--Seattle Times

"Wells' Louisiana is thick with sensual excesses -- bayou French, pralines and sour cream cookies, crayfish etouffee, honeysuckle-smothered trellises, camellias and jasmine... In Divine Secrets, you can hear the ice cubes clink on every page... Wells' book succeeds marvelously."--Seattle Weekly

"Sensitive, spellbinding... a wonderfully irreverent look at life in small-town Louisiana from the thirties on up through the eyes of the Ya-Yas, a gang of merry, smart, brave, poignant, and unforgettable godesses."--Booklist

"I read the first two pages and I said... I haven't heard a white woman talk like this in literature before."--Terry McMillan, San Francisco Chronicle

"An insightful, delicious novel."--Oregonian

-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-DispatchThe 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?