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

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.

Author: Haven Kimmel
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 09/03/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780767915052
ISBN10: 0767915054
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

About the Author
Haven Kimmel studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.