Little Altars Everywhere
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“Brilliant. . . . 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 The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller 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. 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.
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Ya Yas is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Rebecca Wells.
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Little Altars everywhere is a series of short stories that come from different people in the Walker family and the black couple that worked for them. It was interesting to see each person's perspective of the family and what they were dealing with. Sometimes the book made me laugh so hard, especially the first story about the camp. Later the book was very sad and sometimes alarming. It made me wish I could help make things better some how but of course no one could. Some people have sad lives and they just have to live through the sadness they created for themselves. Unfortunately, the usually involves children who don't deserve it. The story illustrates what I've seen to be true though, how some of those children can begin to see how mixed up their parents are and learn to accept them and love them anyway but also make some corrections for their own lives. People can learn from suffering and grow through it.
