Painted dresses - Patricia Hickman

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.