Ya-Yas in Bloom
About this audiobook
An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 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 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 lead 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.
Performed by Judith Ivey
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About the author
REBECCA WELLS is the author of the #1 NYT bestseller of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which was on the bestseller list for almost two years, and was made into a film by Warner Brothers, and was short-listed for the Womens Prize for Fiction. Her other NYT best-selling novels include Little Altars Everywhere and Ya-Yas in Bloom. Her stand-alone novel, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, introduces a new set of characters. She is the recipient of the Western States Book Award and the American Book Award. Her stage plays include Splittin’ Hairs and Gloria Duplex. She is an actor, playwright, lecturer, and creativity coach, and a member of the Interfaith Vegan Coalition. She can be reached at RebeccaWellsBooks.com.
Judith Ivey has received two Tony® and two Drama Desk awards; she starred in the television series Down Home and has appeared in seventy-five stage productions and twenty films.
