num_pages: 10
description: Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"  Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn.
language: English
title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
titlecomplete: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
genres: Southern, Adult, Novels, Humor, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Chick Lit
ratings_count: 552279
places: The United States of America
series: Ya Yas
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade
publisher: HarperAudio