looking for salvation at the dairy queen by susan gregg gilmore

It is a bit like taking a ride in a time machine.īezeillia's story begins around the time you were born. But it was deliciously fun to write about all of these places that are a part of my childhood memory. Which one were you happiest to include? Was there something else you wish you could have fit in to the book? You grew up in Nashville, and this book makes a lot of references to iconic Nashville institutions that still exist today. Gilmore, who now lives in Chattanooga, took some time from her busy tour schedule to answer a few questions about the novel and its charming heroine. As she finds her way in a society that is changing by the day, Bezellia faces the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam and debutante balls with grace and courage. As the title indicates, Bezellia is not the prim and proper Southern belle that her white-glove aristocratic family wants her to be. Her second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, is a coming-of-age story set in Gilmore's own hometown of Nashville during the 1950s and 1960s. Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice.Susan Gregg Gilmore hit the Southern fiction scene with a bang with her delicious debut, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. 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. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. 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. Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta.

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. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.

Looking for salvation at the dairy queen by susan gregg gilmore