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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

Susan Gregg Gilmore

Hardcover | Pages: 293 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 10705 Users | 1354 Reviews

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Title	:	Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Author	:	Susan Gregg Gilmore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 293 pages
Published	:	February 12th 2008 by Shaye Areheart Books (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. American. Southern. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

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

It's 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 Ringgold's 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 she's 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 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.

Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice.

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Original Title:	Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
ISBN:	0307395014 (ISBN13: 9780307395016)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ringgold, Georgia(United States)

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I loved this book! After some of the "dark" books I've been reading, this was a wonderful break. It's not a long read. I guess I relate to the book so well because I grew up in a small, Southern town. It reminded me of the plights and delights and growing up where everybody knows you and you know them. The language and phrasing is definitely Southern, which is as you might expect, appealing to me. While the books is not all sugar -there's some vinegar and tears mixed in - it is uplifting,

I was expecting a little bit more from this book. It was a fast enjoyable read, but nothing too memorable. The best part of the novel was a secondary character, neighbor Gloria Jean.

The southern women and girls in this novel simply reach out and pull the reader in. If you grew up in a small town, particularly in the south, you know these folks; if you did not, this is what you will find.Small quaint towns, where everyone knows his neighbor's business, generally have deeply buried secrets. There is always a young girl that is completely obsessed with getting out of that town, as soon as possible. She may even pick strawberries by the bushel, turn them into mouth-watering jam

The story is narrated by Catherine Grace Cline, who's looking back at her formative years in Georgia, starting with her childhood. *****Young Catherine Grace Cline lives in Ringgold, Georgia, a small town where everyone knows your business "down to the color of underwear your mama bought you at the Dollar General Store."It's the early 1970s and Catherine Grace is still in grade school, but she has big plans. Unlike some of her friends, Catherine Grace doesn't aspire to marry a local boy and

The surprising turn in this book made for a very interesting read.

I was hoping to be more wow'd by this book, as it was a very cute cover and a clever title I thought, and was pretty happy to have stumbled upon it at the library when I was literally browsing every shelf for a random book to read. Turns out it was just ok. I was not wow'd and while the title of another of her books sounds good as well I'm not thinking of reading it after this one let me down. I did like the southern down home feel. I liked the country phrases and while the characters were