Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of this lovable heroine.' Tampa Tribune 'Gilmore tells her tale with gentle humor and genuine regard for her characters.' Omaha World-Herald 'If I had to make a comparison, I would compare Susan Gregg Gilmore to Fannie Flagg, but Gilmore more than holds her own. 'This is Susan Gregg Gilmore's first novel, but her voice is similar to that of Fannie Flagg. Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective-and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself-Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.

But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she's always imagined. Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline.

Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore