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Rent Ya-Yas in Bloom
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Apr 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 258
Synopsis
An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and number one New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, children, and hair-raising family secrets.
When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that leads Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.
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Reviews
Although this book is set in the South where there was a history of Jim Crow laws, I did not appreciate the use of the “N word”. Felt it was superfluous and did not add anything to the story. Would not recommend this book. Lacked the humor and relatable characters found in the first book—-Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood.