Susan Gregg Gilmore
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January 2009
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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
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2008
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29 editions
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The Funeral Dress
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2013
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8 editions
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
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2010
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17 editions
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The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
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2025
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3 editions
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"I came to The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush as someone who rarely gravitates toward Southern fiction. Within a few chapters, though, any sense of genre fell away. I stopped thinking of it as “Southern fiction” and simply surrendered to an exquisite"
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“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.”
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
“I didn't really think Jesus cared what I wore to Cedar Grove Baptist Church, or to see the governor for that matter, considering the fact that in every picture I ever saw of the King of Kings, He was wearing sandals and bundled up in nothing more than a big, baggy robe.”
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
― Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
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Rahmadiyanti
Jan 27, 2009 08:09PM
Hello, Susan. Thanks for adding me as your friend. Your book seems interesting for me :)
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thank you -- it reads very simply -- by design -- but is not a simple book. some dismiss it b/c it is Southern but don't get me started on the whole bias against Southern lit :))I'm adding yours to my list!
hey there...your book looks very interesting http://www.billhazelgrove.comhttp://www.amazon.com/review/product/...







































