Little Altars Everywhere

After finishing The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, I managed to find Little Altars Everywhere, also by Rebecca Wells. I actually didn't expect it at all to be about Thorton, Louisianna still, but it was nice to go back into the world of the Ya-Yas.

I believe Little Altars Everywhere was written before The Divine Secrets but, I'm not sure. It's not like you need to read one before to understand the other. You're kind of thrown en medias res in the both of them.

Little Altars Everywhere is different because it's written differently. There are little vignettes from the different people in the stories. And they're each told as how old they are during that time. So Sidda in 1963 is very whiny and know-it-all instead of the struggling 40-year-old that she was in The Divine Secrets. Also, so far I've gotten to see things from Sidda's little brother Baylor and her father Big Shep. And it's really interesting to get respective on little people perspectives, but also Big Shep. He was rarely seen or heard from in the Divine Secrets, mostly because it's out of character for him to be seen or heard, but just reading his perspective on Vivi and young Sidda and the Ya-Yas was great. Even seeing what he grew up like and stuff. Ahh, so great I really do like Rebecca Wells. And I just looked on Wikipedia to see which book was published first and this one was. But there's another one, Rebbeca Wells has actually written two more books, so I'll difinitely be checking them out when I finish this one.

So far I don't see in overall plot, but we'll see what happends I guess.