Everything you need to understand or teach Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells.
Little Alters Everywhere is the hilarious, poignant, tragic, compassionate multi-layered saga of the turbulent Walker family in Thornton, Louisiana from the 1960s to the present. Different facets of the story are revealed gradually. Siddalee Walker's mother Viviane is a witty, bright, cultured drunk. She is also viciously abusive to her children. Sidda's father Shepley Walker is immature but a hardworking farmer who hides out at the duck camp whenever things are...