Relationships: For Better or WorseThe highly acclaimed novel The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood finally hit the bestseller list for its complex story of a mother-daughter relationship. Siddalee Walker finds herself immersed in discovering her mother's true identity, the identity that has brought her a lifetime of doubt and guilt. Callie Khouri directed the story for the big screen in 2002 to little success. The film version weakly accommodates the details of Sidda's discovery, the plot that is at the center of this story. Once the resolution occurs, the audience wonders what all the fuss is about (Puig). Khouri's changes to the film resulted in a loss of the complexity and depth of not only the mother-daughter relationship, but other relationships as well, while the book celebrates the richness of each interaction. The most obvious difference between the book and the movie is the plot. . In the text, the reader is thrust into a mother-daughter feud when Sidda describes her mother, Vivi, as "a tap-dancing child molester" (Wells 3). This comment, along with many other reputation-damaging comments, leads Vivi into a pure drama queen tirade. She throws away almost all of Sidda's photos and proclaims that Sidda is dead for her. Vivi tells her daughter, “You are dead to me. You killed me. Now I'll kill you” (Wells 2). Vivi's longtime friends, known as Ya-Yas, are usually quick to take her side, but unusually disagree with Vivi's choice to alienate her daughter. For now, the film remains faithful to the book. The film then radically deviates from the plot of the book; the Ya-Yas, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight and Maggie Smith surprise Sidda, Sandra Bullock, in the middle of a paper ...... Washington Post. The Washington Post Company, 2002. web. January 21, 2010. Puig, Claudia. "'Ya-Ya' is so-so, except for Burstyn, Bullock." Reverend of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood, dir. Callie Khouri. The United States Today. Gannett Co. Inc., 2008. Web. January 21, 2010. Schwarzbaum, Lisa. “The divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood.” Reverend of DivineSecrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood, by Rebecca Wells. Entertainment Weekly. Entertainment Weekly, 2010. Web. January 21, 2010. Tatara, Paul. "'Ya-Ya', a self-indulgent cliché." Reverend of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood, dir. Callie Khouri. CNN. Cable News Network LP, LLLP., 2003. Web. January 21, 2010. Vidimos, Robin. "The 'Ya-Yas' bloom, bleached of its previous color." Denver Post [Denver] April 10, 2005: F. 11. ProQuest Journals. Internet. January 12, 2010. Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. New York: Vivace, 1996. Print.