"To my delight and total surprise, there are these charming and outrageous Ya-Ya clubs forming all over the country: wild women and not a few savvy men who identify with my tribe of fictional Louisiana girlfriends," writes Wells in a welcome letter posted on the "Ga-Ga for Ya-Yas" Web site, The book explores the Teflon-tough ties of mothers, daughters and childhood friends, set in the languid Deep South, circa 1940 to present. In the words of countless Ya-Yas around the nation: "That is so Ya-Ya."īut what, or who, is a Ya-Ya? The definition lies inside the pages of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," the novel by Rebecca Wells that has spawned dozens of Ya-Ya groups nationwide. "But `Gone With the Wind' is on TV today," countered her mother. "But I'm not sick," said the New Orleans youngster. Jane Hobson's daughter knew her mother was a "Ya-Ya" at age 8, when her mother woke her on car pool day, felt her forehead for a temperature and determined that she had a fever and must stay home from school.
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