Something Rising (Light and Swift)

A deeply moving coming-of-age story from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir A Girl Named Zippy Hailed by Book Magazine as ""the new Carson McCullers,"" Haven Kimmel is one of the most promising new young authors to watch. In Something Rising (Light and Swift), Kimmel carefully draws a narrow, claustrophobic portrait of a teenage pool hustler trapped in a small Indiana town. At the same time, this focused sketch is the keyhole through which a much larger American Landscape is revealed. Cassie Claiborne is a girl who waits. At age nine, her father abandons the family. No one in her family looks for his return -- not her sensitive, deeply wounded mother, or her brilliant but high-strung older sister, or even her affable but realistic grandfather. Yet Cassie arises early each morning, sits on the porch rocker, and waits. As Cassie grows into a young female pool hustler, she emulates her father but slowly takes on her mother's deeper nature. The death of her mother propels Cassie through a series of events that finally frees her to come into her own. A searing, honest, and deeply moving story that will have listeners cheering through their tears.