Rebecca Wells writes Southern family fiction centred on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the stories women carry across generations. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood follows playwright Siddalee Walker after a public account of her difficult childhood causes a rupture with her mother Vivi. Vivi's lifelong friends, the Ya-Yas, respond by sending Siddalee a scrapbook and stories from their shared past, gradually revealing a more complicated family history. Little Altars Everywhere approaches many of the same characters through multiple viewpoints and different moments in the Walker family. Wells's books are conversational, character-led and rooted in Louisiana social and family life, mixing humour with alcoholism, conflict and painful memory. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is the clearest route into Wells's Louisiana family fiction, with friendship, memory and competing versions of the same childhood carrying the story. Read more Less
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