Haven Kimmel, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49983-5
A romance evolves in the wake of a domestic shooting in Kimmel's intelligent and compassionate debut novel, which brings two friends of one of the victims together in a small Indiana town. Amos Townsend is the male protagonist, a 40-ish preacher
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Haven Kimmel, Author . Free Press $24 (273p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4775-7
Kimmel returns to the semirural Indiana of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy
, and her witty novel, The Solace of Leaving Early
, to recount, in graceful episodes, the troubled coming-of-age of Cassie Claiborne, who balances "on the...
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Haven Kimmel, Author . Free Press $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8499-8
This sequel to A Girl Named Zippy
charts the continuing escapades of adolescent Zippy in tiny Mooreland, Ind., putting special emphasis on the liberation, via a college education, of her mother, Delonda Jarvis. With stories ranging from Zippy's
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Haven Kimmel, Author . Free Press $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4778-8
Kimmel (Something Rising (Light and Swift)
; A Girl Named Zippy
) returns to rural Indiana in her expansive third novel. Hazel Hunnicut is the proprietor of Hazel Hunnicut's Used World Emporium, “the station at the end of the line”...
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Haven Kimmel, Author . Free Press $24 (223p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7284-8
In her fourth novel, Kimmel (The Used World
; A Girl Named Zippy
; etc.) offers a beautifully wrought portrait of the brilliant and psychotic Trace Pennington, a runaway now scraping by in an Indiana farmhouse while completing her final year of...
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Haven Kimmel, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49982-8
It's a clich to say that a good memoir reads like a well-crafted work of fiction, but Kimmel's smooth, impeccably humorous prose evokes her childhood as vividly as any novel. Born in 1965, she grew up in Mooreland, Ind., a place that by some ""myste
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Haven Kimmel, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator , illus. by Robert Andrew Parker. Clarion $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-15955-0
Written from a dog's-eye view, and enlivened by Parker's (Action Jackson) pen-and-ink drawings, Kimmel's first picture book adopts a tone that, half-bleak, half-whimsical, only partially speaks to a young audience. Kimmel, author of the...
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Haven Kimmel, Author, Haven Kimmel, Read by , read by the author. HighBridge Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-011-4
Kimmel's exuberant vignettes, recounting her youth in Indiana during the '70s, were made to be read aloud; most sound as though they started as funny stories told to friends. Following A Girl Named Zippy
, this book features much of the same
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Haven Kimmel, Author, Peter Brown, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Brown. Simon & Schuster $15.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-689-87402-4
At the beginning of third grade, Kaline Klattermaster has a lot of troubles. His father has disappeared from home, and Kaline's ditzy mother won't say where he is. At school Kaline is tormented by bullies and needs to follow all sorts of...
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