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The Used World

Haven Kimmel

Hardcover | Pages: 308 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 1490 Users | 261 Reviews

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ISBN:	0743247787 (ISBN13: 9780743247788)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Indiana(United States)

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It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead. So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World -- a world where big hearts are frequently broken and sometimes repaired; where the newfangled and the old-fashioned battle it out in daily encounters both large and small; where wondrous things unfold just beneath the surface of everyday life; and where the weather is certainly biblical and might just be prophetic. Hazel Hunnicutt's Used World Emporium is a sprawling antique store that is "the station at the end of the line for objects that sometimes appeared tricked into visiting there." Hazel, the proprietor, is in her sixties, and it's a toss-up as to whether she's more attached to her mother or her cats. She's also increasingly attached to her two employees: Claudia Modjeski -- freakishly tall, forty-odd years old -- who might finally be undone by the extreme loneliness that's dogged her all of her life; and Rebekah Shook, pushing thirty, still living in her fervently religious father's home, and carrying the child of the man who recently broke her heart. The three women struggle -- separately and together, through relationships, religion, and work -- to find their place in this world. And it turns out that they are bound to each other not only by the past but also by the future, as not one but two babies enter their lives, turning their formerly used world brand-new again. Astonishing for what it reveals about the human capacity for both grace and mischief, The Used World forms a loose trilogy with Kimmel's two previous novels, The Solace of Leaving Early and Something Rising (Light and Swift). This is a book about all of America by way of a single midwestern town called Jonah, and the actual breathing histories going on as Indiana's stark landscape is transformed by dying small-town centers and proliferating big-box stores and SUVs. It's about generations of deception, anguish, and love, and the idiosyncratic ways spirituality plays out in individual lives. By turns wise and hilarious, tender and fierce, heartrending and inspiring, The Used World charts the many meanings of the place we call home.

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Title	:	The Used World
Author	:	Haven Kimmel
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 308 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2007 by Free Press (first published August 28th 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Humor

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There's "hitting too close to home" and then there's "hitting your house with a missile." With Kimmel, this time, it was like fucking nuclear proliferation."What do you love?" Finney asked, still looking ahead.I love -- Hazel thought - -your parents' farm and the tone of the voice you use with animals. I love that you have stolen your father's cardigan and made it look like the most feminine sweater in the world. I love the way your curls hang against your neck, and how you are the one true

Again I am blown away by the sheer brilliance of Kimmel's writing and insight into the human heart and condition.Perhaps the most likable of her loose trilogy and perhaps mostly because of nearly completely female cast, this story is unforgettable and paradigm-shifting.While there were several paragraphs I needed to read multiple times, and were sometimes even then didn't completely understand, I felt like this book, those sentences, those thoughts were a call for me to rise to the intellectual

Most of the time I was reading this it bordered on two or three stars, but now that I'm finished I just can't give it more than one. I just didn't like it. I tried to like it. I tried to get into it. I just couldn't. I was disappointed. I love the other books by Kimmel that I've read, A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch. These are laugh-out-loud great reads that I'd recommend to everyone. I don't feel like all books need to be wrapped up in a nice, neat package by the end, but A

The Used World is as much about plot as it is about character development, but the characters suffer only a little for it. Kimmel reminds me of Marilynne Robinson, especially with her focus on religious struggles her characters face, but Robinson is better. For my taste, Kimmel seems to leave the big ideas she delves into (religion, homosexuality, how we view others) hanging, in order to focus on the big climactic moment in the plot. Don't get me wrong, the climax is well done and exciting, but

i am so excited for this book...haven kimmel read an amazing passage yesterday about the hurt one of the character's experiences in being shunned by her faith community, and how that allows her to experience anew all the memories, good and bad, of that community. it was incredible - everyone was totally silent the whole time...[edited to add]I finished this book a week ago and it completely changed my dreams. I had dreams about these characters, about the many intersecting plotlines, and the

Could have used the print version or audible for this. Used CD and difficult to re-listen.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I've read all the books Haven Kimmel has written. She's become one of my favorite authors. Her prose is so beautiful, and I was stuck over and over in The Used World---just as I've been with her other books---how she can convey so much about a character or a scene in only a couple of wonderfully constructed sentences. They are dropped like tiny gifts throughout the books. And as with all Kimmel's books, I loved the main characters. In this case Hazel,