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

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Marie Angell, July 5, 2007

This book is the perfect antidote to intense, traumatic memoirs (with their fluid approach to the truth).

It is a walk down memory lane for those of us who grew up in that era, instructive insight for those who didn't. If you lived in a small town (even if it wasn't as small as Mooreland), there is much to recognize here. If you didn't, you may be surprised at the similarities as well as the differences.

Kimmel does an impressive job of showing her childhood from her own perspective, but I do have to question if she was really that precocious. Although she leaves the reader wondering about a good many things, it is, after all, a characteristic of the young to not really understand grownup issues.

Kimmel is also quite brilliant at weaving together moments so that the book reads much like a novel, but without apparent artifice. It is a very natural telling.

A thoroughly excellent book, far above average for this genre.

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