Favorite reads and flicks
Discover our favorite reads and flicks, featuring A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel and other must-read books—from biographies to domestic fiction. Explore a curated list of top picks for book and movie lovers seeking their next great story.
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Mister Posterior and the Genius Child
by Emily Jenkins
In this warmhearted novel, a thirtysomething woman looks back on the year she became the most notorious child in the history of the Cambridge Harmony PTA.
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A Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel
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.