Short Synopsis
In the latest novel from Susan Gregg Gilmore, sometimes you have to return to the place where you began to arrive at the place where you belong.

Full Synopsis
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.

"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." ---AudioFile

"Narrator Tavia Gilbert delivers a winning performance in this audio edition. . . . Listeners looking for a Southern-fried coming-of-age tale about love and loss and family will not be disappointed." ---Publishers Weekly Audio Review

"An unusually engaging novel by a very fine writer who knows exactly what she's doing." ---Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls

"Storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way." ---Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon

"Gilmore engages teens with true-to-life family dynamics and life in a small town. . . . Look for future literary works from this talented new voice." ---Library Journal

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