Little Alters Everywhere
Little Alters Everywhere |
"In
my dream, I'm five years old again and it’s a summer night at our
camp in Spring Creek. Mama and all us kids--me, Little Shep, Baylor,
and Lulu--around a bonfire. Mama's gang of girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, and
all their kids are there too. Mama goes
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| "Rebecca Wells' long-awaited first novel is a brilliant piece of work . . . a structural tour de force . . . a classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author's gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved." -- Seattle Weekly |
Little
Altars Everywhere is the New York Times bestselling companion to Rebecca
Wells' celebrated novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Told
in the alternating voices of Vivi and her husband, Big Shep, along with
Sidda, her siblings Little Shep, Lulu, Baylor, as well as the almost-but-not-quite
family Cheney and Willetta, Wells embraces nearly thirty years of life
on their plantation in Thornton, Louisiana, where the dirty air of
the bayou and a web of family secrets at once shelters, traps, and defines
an utterly original community of souls.
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©Taylor Stulb 2007 |
