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Something Rising
(Light and Swift)
Haven Kimmel
Read by Chelsey Rives
A deeply moving coming-of-age story from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir A Girl Named Zippy
Hailed by Book Magazine as "the new Carson McCullers," Haven Kimmel is one of the most promising new young authors to watch. In Something Rising (Light and Swift), Kimmel carefully draws a narrow, claustrophobic portrait of a teenage pool hustler trapped in a small Indiana town. At the same time, this focused sketch is the keyhole through which a much larger American Landscape is revealed.
Cassie Claiborne is a girl who waits. At age nine, her father abandons the family. No one in her family looks for his return---not her sensitive, deeply wounded mother, or her brilliant but high-strung older sister, or even her affable but realistic grandfather. Yet Cassie arises early each morning, sits on the porch rocker, and waits. As Cassie grows into a young female pool hustler, she emulates her father but slowly takes on her mother's deeper nature. The death of her mother propels Cassie through a series of events that finally frees her to come into her own. A searing, honest, and deeply moving sotry that will have listeners cheering through their tears.
"Kimmel's characters are sympathetic and believable, and the author proves herself equally deft at conveying small town desolation and the physics of pool. With a tougher core than her previous books, and an ending that's redemptive without being cliched, Kimmel's latest is another winner." ---Publishers Weekly
Unabridged; 7 1/2 hours on 5 cassettes or 7 CDs
ISBN 1-56511-834-0 (cassette)
ISBN 1-56511-835-9 (CD)
Haven Kimmel is the author of a memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, a novel, The Solace of Leaving Early and a children's book, Orville. She grew up in Indiana and studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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