Title: a total lack of subtlety
Product review: I loved the cover of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood. The text of the novel, however, was insulting to one's intelligence. Wells consistently feels a need to explain her character's witticisms and code words thus giving potentially humorous conversations all the levi of having a joke explained (e.g. we could have all figured out that "the Betty" is the yaya term fo the Betty Ford Center). Furthermore, the author often uses brand names of attire to develop hercharacters--please, portray your fictional creations with more finesse! Having just read Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men, I am sorry to see such a marked decline in the genre of southern fiction. Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and the other greatsouthern writers would be appalled, I think, by this novel which is devoid of the evocative and subtle prose which made their work so timeless and so stirring.
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