The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.
Kimmel, aka "Zippy" because of her propensity as a toddler to race around like a monkey, shares the details of her quirky childhood in the Midwest, where the cast of family characters includes her beauty-queen sister, deeply religious brother, wise mother, and gambling father.
- Genre: Social Science, Biography + Autobiography, Family + Relationships
- Subgenre: Women's Studies, Personal Memoirs, Sociology / Urban, General
- Publisher: Broadway Books
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: September 1, 2002
- Date Published: September 1, 2002
- Author: Haven Kimmel