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Title details for Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore - Wait list

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Tavia Gilbert
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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 the
big city of Atlanta. And when, with the help of a family friend, the
dream becomes a reality, Catherine Grace 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 her back home. As a series of extraordinary events alters 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.

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  • Release date

    January 17, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781452625607
      • File size: 193734 KB
      • Duration: 06:43:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Catherine Grace Cline's mother drowned when she was 6. Since then, Catherine Grace has been impatiently waiting for her 18th birthday, when she can say good-bye to her sister, Martha Ann, her Baptist preacher daddy, and the small, boring town of Ringgold, Georgia. Narrator Tavia Gilbert brings Catherine Grace to life, filling her voice with the all frustration, sorrow, boredom, and longing of a young woman who is determined to find her life anywhere but at home. Gilbert's narration actually makes the story better than it is. As the author tries to work in every clichÄ of Southern fiction, the characters remain flat and the plot overworked, and the listener is left wondering where it all went wrong. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 30, 2012
      In Gilmore’s novel, set in Ringgold, Ga., in the early 1970s, preacher’s daughter Catherine Grace Cline longs to escape smalltown life and move to Atlanta. With a little help from a friend, she does just that—only to be called back home because of a family emergency. Back in Ringgold, Catherine Grace is forced to examine her life and her changing town—and determine just where she wants to call home. Narrator Tavia Gilbert delivers a winning performance in this audio edition. She ably captures the spirit of the text and its stubborn but smart protagonist. Gilbert’s chirpy narration is well paced and conversational, infused with a Southern drawl. Listeners looking for a Southern-fried coming-of-age tale about love and loss and family will not be disappointed. A Broadway paperback.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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