Dairy Queen Days: A Novel
In the summer of 1979, 16-year-old Trout Mosley finds his life turned upside  down. His mother has been hospitalized in Atlanta for depression; his preacher father has  been scandalizing his parishioners with strange comparisons of Jesus and Elvis Presley,  and Trout himself has been packed off to the small Georgia town that bears his family's  name. Here, he becomes reacquainted with a number of eccentric relatives, gets involved  with a strong-minded girl named Keats Dubarry, and lands a job at the local Dairy  Queen.But Trout's summer is hardly idyllic. Keats's father is involved in trying to unionize local  mill workers, and his efforts will pit the Dubarrys against the Mosleys in a final  confrontation that will change everything. Alternately sweet and sad,Dairy Queen  Daysis, as Trout's father says of a spoonful of ice cream, "good for the  soul."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.