Ya-Ya fans gather at UO
bookstore to meet author
■ BOOKSIGNING: Rebecca
Wells introduced her second
novel charting the Sisterhood
escapades
By Mark McTyre
Sports Editor
Ya-ya, there will be a third
book added to the Sisterhood.
Award-winning novelist Re
becca Wells informally an
nounced Saturday that she will
write another sequel to Little Al
tars Everywhere and Divine Se
crets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
“My next book will not be a
WELLS
Ya-Ya book, but
the one after my
next one will
be,” said Wells,
at a booksigning
at the University
Bookstore. “I
learned a lot
from writing
this book [Ya-Ya
Sisterhood], and
I think I would like for this to
sink in for awhile before I revisit
it.”
Wells’ first novel, Little Altars
Everywhere, won the Western
States Book Award for Fiction in
1992 and was a Literary Guild
Alternate Selection and Editor’s
Choice. The jurors for the award,
including chair William Kit
tredge, applauded the book’s “as
tonishing family of voices, potent
in its pain, dazzingly brilliant in
its stretches and perceptions.”
The newly released sequel of
fers readers another look into the
turbulent, unconventional and
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often hilarious lives of the quirky
Walker clan of Thornton, La., ac
cording to Wells. This time,
Wells delves deeper into an in
separable and indominate band
of four women called the Ya-Yas
by telling the story of their child
hood in Thornton.
Wells is often asked if her two
novels follow the pattern of her
life.
“I’m sorry to say that I wrote
this book hoping that I could
have a group of friends like these
in the book,” Wells said. “But I
think whenever you read a book
you learn something about the
author.”
Wells, a Louisiana native, is an
actor and playwright as well. Her
stage plays include Splittin’
Hairs and Gloria Duplex, and she
has also written teleplays for
ABC and CBS.
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