![]() ![]() The characterizations of small town, southern life are recognizable to anyone who has lived there. It is a sweet coming of age novel with a delightful Southern lilt. ![]() Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen was Susan Gregg Gilmore’s debut novel. A return home brings painful surprises, but provides an eye-opening experience for Catherine Grace. Just as she begins to settle in, though, tragedy strikes. She finds a home with a landlady who becomes a dear friend. She gets a job at Davidson’s Department Store, just like she hoped. ![]() On her eighteenth birthday, with the help of a friend, her dream comes true. Every Saturday she sits on a picnic table at Dairy Queen eating a Dilly bar and plotting her escape to the big city of Atlanta. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2008.Ĭatherine Grace Cline sits with her sister at the Dairy Queen, licking Dilly Bars, plotting to get out of her tiny little home town of Ringgold, Georgia, and move to the big city of Atlanta, but when she does, tragedy strikes and long-held secrets threaten to spill out and tear apart the people she loves.Ĭatherine Grace Cline, daughter of Ringgold, Georgia’s third generation Baptist preacher, has a dream.Looking for salvation at the Dairy Queen : a novel / Susan Gregg Gilmore. ![]()
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