Ya-yas in Bloom

by Wells, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780060759445
• ISBN10: 0060759445
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-29
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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

Table of Contents

A Little Love Gift	1	(18)
Sowing Sisterhood Seeds
The Legacy of Teensy's Pecan	19	(12)
Gopher Girls of God	31	(26)
Hobnobbin' at The Bob	57	(22)
Tending Young Buds
Scenes from My Early Career	79	(34)
Buckaroo	113	(28)
Snow in the South	141	(16)
Show and Tell	157	(46)
Circling the Globe	203	(18)
Pilgrimage	221	(48)
Bruised Plantings
Too Much Wild	269	(42)
Daughter of God	311	(38)
A Bountiful Garden
Safety	349	(48)
A Star's a Seed a Seed's a Star	397