Read Series: Zippy

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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana (2007)

This is a far darker book than Kimmel's first memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, and I loved it for that darkness, because while I'd sensed it simmering under the surface of that first book, it never quite broke through—Kimmel hewed closely to portraying her world as she felt it was when she was a young...