Little Altars Everywhere

<p><strong>Brilliant. . . . 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.-- <em>Seattle Weekly</em></strong></p><p><strong>The companion novel to Rebecca Wells's celebrated #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood</em></strong></p><p>Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant secretive mother Vivi? Here the young Sidda--a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family--leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners devotion and provocative ideas Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow.</p><p><em>Little Altars Everywhere</em> is an insightful piercing and unflinching evocation of childhood a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.</p>