![]() She is happily married to Chick Claiborne, her high school sweetheart, and has two children, Jack and Genny.Ĭrowned "Countess Singing Cloud," Necie is the gentlest, most steady member of the sisterhood. Teensy is fun-loving and enjoys taking her clothes off-as a child, for play, and as an adult, as part of a striptease act she does for her friends. Genevieve is from the bayou area and speaks Cajun French when not in earshot of her husband. Genevieve acts as a mother figure to the group. ![]() Known as "Princess Naked as a Jaybird," in the sisterhood, she is the daughter of Genevieve St. Aimee "Teensy" Malissa Whitman Claiborne.Vivi's high school sweetheart is Teensy's brother Jacques "Jack" Whitman, who is killed during World War II. She is also deeply scarred by the abuse of her childhood. Vivi is very dramatic and enjoys being the star of any group she is in. She is emotionally abused by her jealous mother when her father gives her a ring for her birthday. Growing up in Thornton, Louisiana with her three best friends, she is the daughter of Mary Katherine "Buggy" Abbott and Taylor Abbott. She is the mother of Siddalee, Lulu, Little Shep and Baylor, and she is unhappily married to Shep Walker. Vivi, also known as "Queen Dancing Creek," is one of the main characters. But Vivi's intrepid gang of life-long girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together. Siddalee, a successful theatre director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend Connor McGill. ![]() When Siddalee and Vivi Walker, an utterly original mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fall-out is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Wells stated the novel had little resemblance to her own life and the only autobiographical element was the name of a dog included in the story. Wells spent four years writing the novel. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood tells the story of the downward spiraling mother-daughter relationship of Vivian Walker and Siddalee Walker. In 2005, Wells wrote Ya-Yas in Bloom and then The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder. It follows the novel Little Altars Everywhere. Ya-Yas in Bloom, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponderĭivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a 1996 novel written by Rebecca Wells.
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