Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen - Susan Gregg Gilmore

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.