"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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