When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed qZippyq 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 periodapeople 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.The trailer had to be outfitted with supplies, and they all had to go in special tiny places, all facing the same direction; the ... and all because one of the wires connecting the trailer lights to the truck went out, so sometimes we had to go throughanbsp;...
Title | : | A Girl Named Zippy |
Author | : | Haven Kimmel |
Publisher | : | Broadway Books - 2002-06-18 |
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