| Little Altars Everywhere Contributor(s): Wells, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060759968 ISBN-13: 9780060759964 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: The companion to the bestselling "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 850 |
| Series: YA-YA |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.3" W x 8.02" (0.47 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Deep South - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 63645 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Rarely do you find a first novel of such power. The author's strange, arresting combination of colloquialism and poetry flows from her eight characters with a force so strong you savor each sentence." -- Southern Living The companion novel to Rebecca Wells's celebrated Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Who 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. An arresting combination of colloquialism, poetry, and grace, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wells, Rebecca: - Writer, actor, and playwright Rebecca Wells is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ya-Yas in Bloom, Little Altars Everywhere, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which was made into a feature film. A native of Louisiana, she now lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest. |