Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen A Novel

The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. Quickwitted and more than a little stubborn, Catherine Grace is dying to escape her small-town life. When her dream to go to Atlanta becomes a reality, she immediately makes the move, leaving behind the boy she loves. But all too soon, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective, Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began. "Even more appealing than a diet of Dilly Bars, and Gilmore's novel is a meal worth the consumption." BookPage "Every female will find herself identifying with Catherine Grace's search for her place in the world." Chattanooga Times Free Press "A stellar literary debut...[Gilmore] beautifully reproduces rural speech, especially Southern female speech at its cattiest and most hilarious." Wilmington Star News

SUSAN GREGG GILMORE has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three daughters. This is her first novel.


From the Hardcover edition.