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| Plot Summary of Ya-Yas in Bloom |
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"As in her first novel, Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells continues to elaborate the lives of the Ya-Ya clan with a patchwork of stories, some told in first-person style, some in third. The first group of vignettes describes the meeting of the four original Ya-Yas as four-year-old girls in Thornton, Louisiana: Teensy, with a pecan stuck up one nostril, meets Vivi in the waiting room of the doctor's office, Teensy and Vivi crawl beneath the pews during mass to pull Necie's braids, and Caro's family owns the town movie theatre where the girls love to go with Teensy's vivacious mother, Genevieve.
The next group of vignettes is rooted in the childhood of Vivi's children, the four Walker kids. Siddalee describes her first diectorial experience, coaching her mother and the other Ya-Yas through a dinner party performance, and recalls the family's trip to Houston to see the Beatles in concert. Tiny Baylor steals cash from his father's wallet to buy a antique globe, and Shep knocks himself unconscious by running into a glass door the first time he glimpses snow.
Things take a dramatic turn in later vignettes when angry misfit Edythe Spevey kidnaps one of the grandchildren of the Ya-Yas. The entire tribe comes out en masse to help Necie and her family find the missing girl. "
Jacqueline West, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life
Yes
GROUP of women story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- wealthy
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- secretary
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- deluded
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 (an average amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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