A Girl Named Zippy
by By Kimmel, Haven
Category: Biography & Autobiography , Personal Memoirs

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&apos;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.