Description

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of 3 hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way in which she'd bolt throughout the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and a great deal larger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back once again to a period when small town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, visited church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals within 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's wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.