looking for salvation at the dairy queen by susan gregg gilmore

Tragedy strikes the day before they’re to move in: Curtis and Leona are killed in a car accident. Leona is hard, but she is the closest thing Emmalee has had to mothering care in years, and so, when, three years later, Emmalee has a baby she calls Kelly Faye, Leona invites them to live at the trailer. Childless, Leona and Curtis still live in the starter trailer they bought as newlyweds she takes in extra sewing, and he devotes his life to their church. At Tennewa, she is seated next to Leona, a secretive woman, broken from the death of her baby boy years ago. After her mother died years ago, her care fell to her father, Nolan, a handsome, angry drunkard who barely kept her fed or clothed (her schoolteacher took to bathing her in the janitor’s closet). In 1974, when Emmalee Bullard gets a job sewing collars at the Tennewa shirt factory, the 16-year-old begins the escape from the miserable poverty in which she was raised. There are those who think an unmarried woman shouldn’t make the dress, but she is determined to do her best to honor her friend.A young woman in Appalachia battles poverty, discrimination and her own insecurity in this moving and memorable third novel from Gilmore ( Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, 2008, etc.). Now, Emmalee decides to honor the woman by making her burying dress. Just as she is settling in, the old woman dies tragically. She isn’t alone for long though as an old seamstress who she worked with insists that she come live with her. In this book, Emmalee Bullard is new to town with a baby in tow.

Gilmore is also the author of The Funeral Dress. However, she is soon called home by tragedy and has her entire perspective of where she belongs change. She finally reaches her goal and heads off to Atlanta, leaving all that she knows behind her.

She heads to the Dairy Queen each Saturday to plot her escape with the help of a family friend. Catherine Grace Cline is the daughter of Ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher and she is itching to escape this small town life. The town has just one traffic light and one Dairy Queen. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen takes place in the early 1970s in the small town of Riggold, Georgia. If You Like Susan Gregg Gilmore Books, You’ll Love…

Looking for salvation at the dairy queen by susan gregg gilmore