Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells

Yuck. I read this because Malcolm Gladwell said it took the U.S. by storm, and I realized it had been made into a movie, and so concluded that it must have something compelling about it. But no. It is nowhere near as good as Gladwell made it seem [see “claims” below]. It’s written by someone who obviously really loves Louisiana but is unable to find a way to make the reader experience the place.

-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette Guilbert