Susan Gregg Gilmore

All her life, Catherine Grace Cline has had just one ambition: to leave Ringgold, a small town in the Southern US, with just one gas station, a dollar store and a Dairy Queen, to leave the house of her father, whom she loves but whose strict ideas of morality (he is, after all, the town’s Baptist preacher) make it just a little bit too hard to breathe for some of those around him, and to set out into the big, wide exciting world in the shape of Atlanta, Georgia. And finally, the time has come to pack her prized set of matching suitcases and get on the bus.

"Looking for Salvation ..." is a charming coming-of-age story set in the deep South, full of quirky, original characters; a story about families and the ties that bind us, about love and forgiveness, and about figuring out just where it is you belong.