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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Susan Gregg Gilmore
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Crown
, 2008-02-12
主題
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
ISBN
0307407292
9780307407290
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_ZZNJHJ85mEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.