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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
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 for myriad antiques and junk in Jonah, Ind. With her passel of cats and distaste for convention, Hazel is eccentric but grudgingly beloved by her two employees: Claudia, a tall and lonely woman ostracized for her androgynous appearance, and Rebekah, who is still recovering from an oppressive Pentecostal upbringing. With a nudge from Hazel and the appearance of an abandoned infant (whose junkie mother, a friend of Hazel's junkie sister, is dead), the two women form a relationship, providing momentum as an unlikely family takes shape and hidden connections between the characters are revealed. The story has many satisfying layers, but melding them requires Kimmel to jump around in time, sometimes to confusing results (among the pasts visited are Rebekah's childhood; Hazel's upbringing and the backstory on her relationship with the locals; and dreamlike visions of a long-ago romance between a black groundskeeper and a white judge's daughter). It's an intriguing puzzle box of a novel with a few edges left unsanded. (Sept.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine
The Used World is the newest novel in a very loose trilogy comprised of The Solace of Leaving Early (2002) and Something Rising (Light and Swift) (***1/2 May/June 2004), both portraits of small-town life in Indiana. Here, Kimmel explores faith in religion, friendship, and family through three female outcasts whom circumstance brings together. Kimmel’s vivid, poetic writing, mixed with compassion and wry humor, reveals their multilayered lives slowly and satisfyingly. Critics noted some digressions, complex interconnections, melodrama, and confusing shifting viewpoints but praised the novel’s overall message of hope. As the character Rebekah concludes, "What feels like the end of the world never is. It never is."
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 for myriad antiques and junk in Jonah, Ind. With her passel of cats and distaste for convention, Hazel is eccentric but grudgingly beloved by her two employees: Claudia, a tall and lonely woman ostracized for her androgynous appearance, and Rebekah, who is still recovering from an oppressive Pentecostal upbringing. With a nudge from Hazel and the appearance of an abandoned infant (whose junkie mother, a friend of Hazel's junkie sister, is dead), the two women form a relationship, providing momentum as an unlikely family takes shape and hidden connections between the characters are revealed. The story has many satisfying layers, but melding them requires Kimmel to jump around in time, sometimes to confusing results (among the pasts visited are Rebekah's childhood; Hazel's upbringing and the backstory on her relationship with the locals; and dreamlike visions of a long-ago romance between a black groundskeeper and a white judge's daughter). It's an intriguing puzzle box of a novel with a few edges left unsanded. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Bookmarks Magazine
The Used World is the newest novel in a very loose trilogy comprised of The Solace of Leaving Early (2002) and Something Rising (Light and Swift) (***1/2 May/June 2004), both portraits of small-town life in Indiana. Here, Kimmel explores faith in religion, friendship, and family through three female outcasts whom circumstance brings together. Kimmel’s vivid, poetic writing, mixed with compassion and wry humor, reveals their multilayered lives slowly and satisfyingly. Critics noted some digressions, complex interconnections, melodrama, and confusing shifting viewpoints but praised the novel’s overall message of hope. As the character Rebekah concludes, "What feels like the end of the world never is. It never is."
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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