Haven Kimmel

Haven Kimmel , The Used World.

7:00-8:30pm. This facilitated book group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at Charis to discuss books which feature queer characters/ storylines as well as a strong attention to literary craft and style. Join us this month to talk about "The Used World," by Haven Kimmel. A staff favorite here at Charis, "The Used World" is an in-depth fictional exploration of small-town queer identity, pre-Roe v. Wade abortions, chosen family vs. blood family, and the way past, present and future collide in an Indiana landscape to tell a brilliant and beautiful story. (booksense)… (more)

Haven Kimmel , Iodine.

Come join us to hear Haven Kimmel read from her new novel Iodine, in which, as Publishers Weekly put it in a starred review, “Kimmel offers a beautifully wrought portrait of the brilliant and psychotic Trace Pennington, a runaway now scraping by in an Indiana farmhouse while completing her final year of college.” The result? “Part Midwestern gothic, part psychological portrait…completely mesmerizing,” says the Library Journal. (booksense)… (more)

Haven Kimmel reads from Iodine.

You might know Haven Kimmel best for her memoirs, A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch, but she’s also the author of several works of fiction including her latest, Iodine. Here she explores the psychological effects of trauma through the eyes of college student Trace Pennington. After surviving a terrible childhood, Trace managed to become a successful student and assume a new identity as a girl without a past. When she falls in love, she is forced to confront her past anew, but her recovered memories do as much to obscure her story as reveal it. (alphaorder)… (more)