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The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder LP | |||
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder LP |
Known for her beloved New York Times bestselling Ya-Ya books (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in Bloom), Rebecca Wells now debuts an entirely new cast of characters in this shining stand-alone novel about the pull of first love, the power of life, and the human heart's vast capacity for healing.
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is the sweet, sexy, funny journey of Calla Lily's life set in Wells' expanding fictional Louisiana landscape. In the small river town of La Luna, Calla enjoys a blissful childhood under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide her throughout her life, and her mother, M'Dear, who passes on to Calla the art of healing through "fixing hair."
It is also on the banks of the La Luna River that Calla encounters first love. But when she suddenly finds herself with a broken heart, Calla transforms hurt into inspiration and heads for New Orleans to study at L'AcadÉmie de BeautÉ de Crescent. In that big, colorful city she finds her destinyand comes to fully understand the power of her "healing hands" to change lives and soothe pain, including her own.
Rebecca Wells is a novelist, actor, and playwright. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ya-Yas in Bloom, Little Altars Everywhere (winner of the Western States Book Award), and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (winner of the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award, short-listed for the Orange Prize), which was made into a feature film. She performs from her work internationally, and her books have been translated into twenty-three languages. A native of Louisiana, she now makes her home on an island in Puget Sound, Washington, with her husband, their spaniel, and three sheep.