Wells uses multiple narrators to unfold the story in ‘ Little Altars Everywhere. It offers no miracles of redemption instead it suggests the power of an open heart to offer protection to the innocent. ‘ Little Altars Everywhere is finally about the tiny murders that occur within a loving but lost Catholic Louisiana family. It becomes clear that ultimately, there is no one truth within a family there are only each character’s tiny pin light of truth. The previous stories weren’t necessarilylies, but they weren’t the whole truth. Twenty seven years later, Wells returns to the Walkers, and this time the stories are startlingly different. The book opens in 1963 with the recollections of Siddalee as a young girl, and continues with entries from her siblings, parents, and the black ‘help’ who cannot save the Walker’s from their darkness. Each member of this funny, charming, and wounded family describes the view from his or her perch on the family tree. Her husband, Shep, is a cotton planter, and the two of them have four children: Siddalee, Little Shep, Baylor, and Lulu, who is named for Tallulah Bankhead, one of her mother’s patron saints. Vivi Abbot Walker, the mother, is the eye of the hurricane. Plot Summary: ‘ Little Altars Everywhere, the first novel by Rebecca Wells, is the bittersweet story of the Walker clan of Thornton, Louisiana.
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