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    Something Rising (Light and Swift)
    Something Rising (Light and Swift)
    Something Rising (Light and Swift)
    Audiobook7 hours

    Something Rising (Light and Swift)

    Written by Haven Kimmel

    Narrated by Chelsey Rives

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    About this audiobook

    Something Rising (Light and Swift), Haven Kimmel#8217;s second novel, is the heart-wrenching story of a female pool hustler who takes care of her family after her rakish father abandons them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateDec 22, 2003
    ISBN9781598873191
    Something Rising (Light and Swift)
    Author

    Haven Kimmel

    Haven Kimmel is the author of The Used World, She Got Up Off the Couch, Something Rising (Light and Swift), The Solace of Leaving Early, and A Girl Named Zippy. She studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, N.C.

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    • 4/5
      The books that I’ve read by Haven Kimmel run the gamut between laugh out loud funny, break your heart poignant and I loved this book but I’m not 100% why. “Something Rising (Light and Swift)” was yet another different kind of book. It was beautiful in a brittle, heartbreaking way.Cassie, the main character, is a girl, then a woman who is desperately and silently trying to hang on to those small and uncommon types of love that she has. Jimmy – her father, Laura – her mother, and Belle – her sister, give her very little love or affection in the traditional sense of the words. “Cassie was, at ten, a child who would have to learn to look away.”She desperately loves her father despite being abandoned by him for much of her life. Her mother’s physical presence is a constant, yet Cassie knows very little about her. All through her life, it seems she is waiting for her father, so like her in spirit, to be part of her life, and for her mother, so unlike her, to tell her about her life.Finally, once their lives start to change dramatically, Cassie gets part of what she wants as she starts to learn about the mystery that is her mother, Laura.“…when you were three and Belle was five, I decided to leave your father, and Shirley was the first person I went to.” Cassie rubbed her forehead. How could she ever explain to Laura that hearing this story still caused a shimmer in her belly, she was still afraid that Jimmy and she’d lose her family so long after he’d left and she’d lost?”Cassie’s feeling about her family – mother, father and sister are so conflicted, and so precisely written that she is one of the most real and knowable characters that I’ve read about in a long while.“Cassie’s breath quickened, and she could hear her heartbeat. Jimmy still evoked elation and dread – she wanted to run to him before he got away, and she wanted to run past him and have it over with.”She says very little throughout the book, but she feels so much – the reader is given a chance to know her more than she probably knows herself. Some of the choices she makes evoked a sense of protection in me…as if she was taking the first steps towards the paths of her parents and I wanted to warn her off. There was ferocity to Cassie that made me both fear for her and admire her.I will always look forward to Haven Kimmel’s books – I won’t know what type of book to expect but I am sure it will be an amazing experience.
    • 3/5
      Ending just a bit too pat; main character not well fleshed-out. Kimmel writes beautifully, but this is not her best.
    • 3/5
      I honestly don’t know what to say about this one. I found it very uneven - parts of it I loved and thought were lyrical and magical. Parts of it I found so draggy that I had trouble sticking with it. I’ve put it on my keeper shelf for now because I want to try again after a little time has passed and see what my reaction is to a re-read. For now I give it a C-, but that is subject to change.
    • 4/5
      Someone who is not interested in the game of pool might find getting involved in this story a bit dificult. The characters, a young girl coming-of-age & her pool-playing mentors are not very likeable people. The setting, a run-down town in rural Indiana, is hardly inspiring. The plot rambles as the girl constantly challanges people to games of pool, winning & losing are seen as metaphors to her smoewhat chaotic life.A relaxing read, though & the conditions depicted in the Indiana town are all too common in the rural mid-west.
    • 4/5
      This book is Kimmel's attempt at the standard coming-of-age-in-a-dysfunctional-family trope, but even here she twists it almost unrecognizably. It begins fairly typically but strays further & further from the mold as it goes along. Like The Solace of Leaving Early, which I admired, this book is set in rural central Indiana, but whereas that one focused on an intellectual elite, this one is about more stereotypical rural Hoosiers who live apparently meaningless lives in a trailer. (But, of course, Kimmel again gives this a twist as we gradually learn that the main character's--a teenaged pool shark--mother writes poetry & her sister studies classical mythology.) I didn't connect with this one as much as her other one.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this growing-up story of a female Indiana pool hustler. From her first pool game, Cassie finds everything she needs at the table, and it fascinated me how she applied the laws of physics to pool (I'm sure any good player does that, but I never thought about it before). I didn't find it distracting that I know nothing at all about pool; I thought it was explained as well as it needed to be for the story. I met Haven Kimmel at a book signing several years ago, and found her to be such an interesting person that I can picture her writing and narrating her books. A+ for this one.