num_pages: 469
description: At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood and heal a rift with her mother. Reprint. (A Warner Bros. film, releasing July 12, 2002, directed by Callie Khouri, starring Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith, Shirley Knight, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner, Cherry Jones, Matthew Settle, &amp; Angus MacFayden) (General Fiction)
language: English
title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
titlecomplete: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Humor, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Southern
ratings_count: 552244
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: HarperTorch