A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)
 

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

by Haven Kimmel

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... (read more)

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Baetrice
  • Rated 4 stars

I really enjoyed this book. I've read a lot of memoirs recently, but this one struck me as very different. Being just a couple of years older than the author, also growing up in the Midwest, but outside of a major city, I could relate to many era references. This book is quirky, funny, touching, and a bit dark at times. I liked the author's voice quite a bit and look forward to reading the sequel to this book and her novels.

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Valesca B
  • Rated 2 stars

Cute. I did not get into this book very much. It was a bit slow for me.

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  • Rated 3.953425 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • Jen M

    jen m said:

    It makes you laugh! A wonderfully written story about childhood. Loved the parts about her pet chicken and her dad's use of the hounds to quiet a neighbor. The test of any good book is how long it takes to return after you loan it out. This one's been missing from my library for about two years. Last I heard, it had made it all the way across the country and back.

    posted Wednesday, November 7 2007
  • Teak

    teak said:

    I heard her read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Excellent reader, writer and person!

    posted Tuesday, October 2 2007
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