A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

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.

Haven Kimmel is the author of A Girl Called Zippy, a memoir. She attended Ball State University and North Carolina State University, where she studied English and creative writing. She also went to the Earlham School of Theology for seminary. She is currently residing in Durham, North Carolina.

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ISBN 13	9780767915052
ISBN 10	0767915054
Title	A Girl Named Zippy
Author	Haven Kimmel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-09-03
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2004
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