num_pages: 358
description: When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." As Sidda struggles to analyze her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for.Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood may call to mind Prince of Tides in its unearthing of family darkness; in its unforgettable heroines and irrepressible humor and female loyalty, it echoes Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
language: English
title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
titlecomplete: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas, #1)
genres: Adult, Southern, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Humor, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 552237
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: Harper Perennial