Little Altars Everywhere
A Novel
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On Sale:
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20/07/2009
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Trade paperback | E-Book
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The companion to the beloved bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, here is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas.
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Critical Praise for
Little Altars Everywhere
“A brilliant piece of work...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.”
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Seattle Weekly
“A gem of a book....Wells offers a virtuoso performance.”
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Denver Post
“Rebecca Wells has written a funny, eloquent and sad novel that easily leaps regional bounds.”
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Washington Post
“At the Walker family altar, sainthood is a one-way ticket to purgatory, and getting there is half the fun.”
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Columbus Dispatch
“Wells presents an astonishing family of voices, potent in its pain, dazzlingly brilliant in its stretches and perceptions. This hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Louisiana, will leave few readers unchanged.”
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Western States Book Award Citation Jurors
“Some writers have all the luck. Not only did Rebecca Wells get to be Catholic, she also got to come from Louisiana. This means that half of her is conversant with the Mystery, and the other half is crazy. Out of this chemistry she has written a brilliant, pungent, and hilarious novel about the Walker clan of Thornton, Louisiana...I’d like you to meet Miss Siddalee Walker, a force of nature and a tool of fate, and one of the sharpest-eyed little chatterboxes since Huckleberry Finn. LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE teems with wonderful characters...But it’s Wells’ tireless and ruthless evocation of childhood combined with an unfailingly shrewd comic ear that makes Little Altars Everywhere such a thoroughly joyful and welcome noise.”
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Andrew Ward, NPR commentator and author of Out Here: A Newcomer's Notes from the Great Northwest
“What an exciting new voice, and what a splendid first novel. Just wonderful!”
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Pat Conroy, author ofBeach Music andThe Prince of Tides
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