Catherine Grace Cline was the preacher’s
daughter in the small town of Ringgold, Georgia. Her mother died when she was
six. Her experience told her if God was omnipotent or not didn’t matter,
because he didn’t listen to her. “So
every night before I went to bed I got down on my knees and begged the Lord to
find me a way out of this town. And every morning, I woke up in the same old
place.” Eventually she
leaves Ringgold, and eventually, she learns that everything she believed was
wrong.
Catherine Grace found it difficult to
be the motherless, preacher’s daughter in a small town. “You are the preacher’s daughter and with that
comes a certain amount of responsibility.”
The responsibility weighed heavily on her. “I
hate being the preacher’s daughter.”
She kept expecting some privilege from her position, but it never came. “Being the preacher’s daughter had never been
an advantage, at least not as far as I could tell.”
With her mother gone, many women
befriended her. Gloria Jean was a close friend of her mother who gave Catherine
Grace advice on how to be a woman and took her shopping. Miss Haines was her
Sunday School teacher. Martha Ann was her younger sister. Miss Mabie took her
in when she finally left Ringgold. Aside from her father, almost all the
characters, good and bad, are women.
The book has four parts: growing up in
Ringgold, moving to Atlanta, revelations (where Catherine Grace discovers that
everything she believed was wrong), and redemption.
Looking for Salvation at the DairyQueen by Susan Grigg Gilmore is a coming-of-age story of surprising revelations and heart-warming redemptions.
For my expanded notes: http://1book42day.blogspot.com/2018/08/dreamers-of-day-by-mary-doria-russell.html
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