Good News For Readers

Ya-Yas In Bloom (NAPSA)—Good newsfor read- ers who are ga-ga for Ya-Yas! The characters from the award-win- ning author of “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” are back in “Ya-Yas In Bloom” (Harper Paperbacks, $13.95). Rebecca Wells returns to the roots of the Ya-Yas’ friendship in the 1930s, in a book that roars with all the powerof Vivi Abbott Walker’s 1962 A T-Bird through 60 years of marriage, child-raising and Louisiana lunacy. Wells’ stories of the Louisiana “wild women” who swear to be true sister-friends as children and support each other through mother-daughter conflicts, straying husbands, and hilarious lapses in parenting skills have become part of American culture...and touched a universal chord in womenofall ages. “Irrepressible...Touching...A pleasure to read.” —The Oregonian (Portland) Ya-Yas every- where have another reason to rejoice with the paperback release of “Ya-Yas In Bloom,” which once again captures readers’ hearts with the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy. The powerful novel is now in paperback and at bookstores everywhere.