Description
A stellar literary debut (Wilmington Star News) about a young girls attempt to escape the confines of her hometown and find her place in the world
Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of this lovable Tribune
Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.
Its the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgolds third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.
Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. 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 shes always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspectiveand sweeping changes come to Ringgold itselfCatherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice.
Author: Susan Gregg Gilmore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 06/09/2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780307395023
Language: English
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