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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780767915052 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Review:
"Kimmel's smooth, impeccably humorous prose evokes her childhood as vividly as any novel....The truths of childhood are rendered in lush yet simple prose." Publishers Weekly
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"Her story is filled with good humor, fine storytelling, and acute observations of small town life." Library Journal
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"Fresh, funny, delightful, and very amusing." Kirkus Reviews
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"Droll and distinctive... unerring in relating the universal smallness of a rambunctious yet thoughtful child." Entertainment Weekly
Synopsis:
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.
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Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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mariposamarie, May 9, 2008 (view all comments by mariposamarie)
"My mother said she was a 120 pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat to avoid bruising."- these and other zingers keep this book light and cheery. Kimmel writes like a comedian, but has the ability to cover serious issues. This is a great book.
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Marie Angell, July 5, 2007 (view all comments by Marie Angell)
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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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780767915052
- Subtitle:
- Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Broadway Books
- Location:
- New York, NY
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- City and town life
- Subject:
- Girls
- Subject:
- Regional Subjects - Midwest
- Subject:
- Childhood Memoir
- Subject:
- Mooreland
- Edition Description:
- 1st Broadway Books trade paperback ed.
- Series Volume:
- 80
- Publication Date:
- September 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 8.10x5.21x.66 in. .51 lbs.
