Books like Looking for salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Catherine Grace Cline, daughter of a third‑generation Baptist preacher, lives in the tight‑knit town of Ringgold, Georgia. Every Saturday afternoon she sits at the lone Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting a move to Atlanta. With the help of a family friend, her dream becomes a reality, and she leaves her family and the boy she loves behind to pursue the life she has imagined.
But just as she begins to settle into Atlanta, a sudden tragedy forces Catherine back home. A series of extraordinary events and sweeping changes in Ringgold challenge her perspective, leaving her to wonder if her place in the world may, against all odds, be right where she started. The novel explores themes of self‑actualization, young womanhood, and the pull of hometown ties in a small‑town setting.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Psychology/General Psychology
Authors: Susan Gregg Gilmore
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