Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Then all the family secrets start coming out.

She is stubborn and sweet and in the middle of growing up without a mother, and just when things are looking up for her…her father dies. But once I got into it, I was very attached to Catherine Grace. It took me a few pages to really get into this one. It reads very well and is very much like a made-for-television movie. It is, I suppose, a coming-of-age story with very Southern appeal. My Thoughts: This story follows Catherine Grace Cline as she grows up with her sister and her father. Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice. -(summary from back of book) 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. 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.Įvery Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. 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