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Painted Dresses : A Novel by Patricia Hickman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Painted Dresses : A Novel about?
Two sisters embark on a road trip to seek out far-flung relatives and uncover the truth hidden behind the painted over lives of past family members.Gaylen Syler-Boatwright flees her unraveling marriage to take refuge in a mountain cottage owned by her deceased aunt. Burdened with looking after her adult sister, Delia, she is shocked to find a trail of family secrets hidden within her aunt's odd collection of framed, painted dresses. With Delia, who attracts trouble as a daily occupation, Gaylen embarks on a road trip that throws the unlikely pair together on a journey to painful understanding and delightful revelations. Steeped in Hickman's trademark humor, her spare writing voice, and the bittersweet pathos of the South, Painted Dresses powerfully captures a woman's desperate longing to uncover a hidden, broken life and discover the liberty of living authentically, even when the things exposed are shrouded in shame.
Who reads Painted Dresses : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Patricia Hickman
- Publisher
- Waterbrook Press; WaterBrook Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400071999
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (154 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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