LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE is a book that stuns - aesthetically, emotionally, psychologically. At its core is Siddalee's dysfunctional Southern family. Now thirty-eight, Siddalee lives in New York and tries to understand a childhood dominated by her beautiful, dramatic mother, Viviane, who drank and then beat and sexually abused her children. Then there's her father, Big Shep, an alcoholic as well, a sensitive Louisiana farmer who can never quite say what he wants, unless it's to yell at his wife. And of course all of them ...
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LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE is a book that stuns - aesthetically, emotionally, psychologically. At its core is Siddalee's dysfunctional Southern family. Now thirty-eight, Siddalee lives in New York and tries to understand a childhood dominated by her beautiful, dramatic mother, Viviane, who drank and then beat and sexually abused her children. Then there's her father, Big Shep, an alcoholic as well, a sensitive Louisiana farmer who can never quite say what he wants, unless it's to yell at his wife. And of course all of them tell their stories, packing full lives into anecdotes and scenes told as adults or remembered as children. Originally published in 1992, LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE is a companion to Wells's DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD.
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