Book description
Paper can be torn and dolls can break.
So can humans.
Kite Tanner, a widow, struggles with the sudden loss of her husband.
Priscilla Martin, the minister’s daughter, pursues money and men with passion.
Lydia Dooley, a prayer-warrior, battles a brain tumor and a daughter who can’t forget the sins…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Paper Dolls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Paper Dolls takes place in the fictitious town of Habakkuk, where everyone knows everyone else. Besides feeling as though I’m part of this sisterhood of women, I love how the author’s focus of this book is to allow me to get to know all of the women equally. Most books will start out with one main character, then the next in the series shares about another, and so forth. Kara Hunt steps outside the box and introduces all the women equally in the first book, making me want to read about each one of them more in-depth in the subsequent…
From Cheri's list on The best Christian books about small towns where God turns messes into miracles.
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