Haven Kimmel

Haven KimmelHaven Kimmel delighted everyone with her first memoir, A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY: GROWING UP SMALL IN MORELAND, INDIANA.

That seems an odd hometown for someone we claim as "local". But the Triangle has embraced Haven since she moved to Durham several years ago and began teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Post ZIPPY, she's written novels, such as IODINE , SOMETHING RISING, and THE SOLACE OF LEAVING EARLY, a children's book, and a sequel memoir, SHE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH.

Iodine (Hardcover)

By Haven Kimmel
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ISBN-13: 9781416572848
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Published: Free Press, 8/2008
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Haven Kimmel enters darker territory with IODINE, the terrifying story of a young woman escaping an abusive home, who is emerging from layers of delusion and fantasy.

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

By Haven Kimmel
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ISBN-13: 9780767915052
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Published: Broadway, 9/2002
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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 run around like a circus monkey, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still trapped in the amber of the innocent postwar period -- people help their neighbors, go to church, keep barnyard animals in their backyards.

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana (Paperback)

By Haven Kimmel
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Published: Free Press, 2/2007
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Picking up where A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY left off, Haven Kimmel crafts a tender portrait of her mother, a modestly heroic woman who took the odds that life gave her and somehow managed to win.

The Solace of Leaving Early (Paperback)

By Haven Kimmel
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ISBN-13: 9781400033348
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Published: Anchor, 5/2003
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The bestselling author of A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY offers a smart and generous first novel that tells the story of a difficult--if not impossible--courtship, and the bittersweet wrestlings with grief and faith that surround it.

Something Rising (Light and Swift) (Paperback)

By Haven Kimmel
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ISBN-13: 9780743247771
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Published: Free Press, 4/2005
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In this uplifting story, Haven Kimmel reaches deep into the hamstrung souls of her fictional corner of Indiana to create an astonishing work of pure heartbreak.