"Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen," by Susan Gregg Gilmore (Shaye Areheart Books, $23)
Catherine Grace Cline is trapped in the small town of Ringgold, Ga., in the 1970s.
Being the daughter of the town's favorite preacher means she is meant to stay trapped.
Her mama seems to be the only one in her family who escaped the confines of Ringgold, and she did that by dying when Catherine Grace was just a first-grader.
But Catherine Grace dreams of life beyond the one-horse town with its small-minded people.
Her dreams become a reality when, upon her 18th birthday, she hops a Greyhound bus and departs to make a new life for herself in Atlanta, where she's far from being the daughter of a preacher, tending tomatoes and her certain destiny of being the wife of a farmer.
Her future seems so bright in Atlanta, where she shines in her dream job until tragedy draws her back home to face her roots.
Catherine Grace finds comfort in the familiar, and in the end realizes where she truly is meant to be.
This is Susan Gregg Gilmore's first novel, but her voice is similar to that of Fannie Flagg. Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of this lovable heroine.
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