A Girl Named Zippy

Name: A Girl Named Zippy
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Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

Haven Kimmel

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English

Broadway Books
03 September 2002

Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: literary; Memoirs; Gender studies: women

The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early.

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet

of three hundred people.

Nicknamed ""Zippy"" for the way she would bolt around the

house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears.

In this witty

and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America

was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period-people helped their neighbors,

went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

Laced with

fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven

Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully

sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

By: Haven Kimmel
Imprint: Broadway Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9780767915052
ISBN 10: 0767915054
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 September 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

Almost dreamlike in some of [her] elusive storytelling, [Kimmel] pulls off a feat that s harder than it looks: write for adults from a child s perspective . . . Zippy's parents must have done something right to produce a girl who could write such a simple and lovely book. USA Today A Girl Named Zippy seems to be about the cleverest . . . memoir ever. [Kimmel is] a born storyteller . . . I imagine everyone in the world would be grateful for Kimmel s book. Orlando Sentinel Very engaging, funny . . . it could be a cheerier version of the Leechfield, Texas, Mary Karr chronicled in The Liar s Club, if drunks never got ugly and if fathers never took a belt to their kids. Hartford Courant Delightfully wry (and sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny). Indianapolis Star