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“Top-notch” —USA Today
“Illuminating” —Washington Post
“A breath of fresh air” —Entertainment Weekly
“Memorable” —People
I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.
After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland.
So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.
Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
- Sales Rank: #201898 in Books
- Brand: Arnold, David
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.18" w x 5.67" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
A Road Book Worth the Ride
By KC
A good road book is 2% starting point, 3% destination, and 95% road. In MOSQUITOLAND, David Arnold pretty much sticks to these numbers. Good thing. As Bilbo Baggins would be happy to tell you, it's all in the journey (you were expecting "wrist"?). And what a journey! This book is 342 pages, yet I downed it in two days. Maybe that's no big deal, but when you consider this is more a character book than a plot book, it becomes one.
So, the protagonist. She's 16-year-old Mary Iris Malone, a.k.a. Mim, and she's different. Unique. Precocious. True, naysayers might rightfully complain, "No 16-year-old girl talks and thinks like this -- like her 40-something-year-old author, I mean," but you need to get over that ipso fasto (Latin for "in a mosquito moment") or else. OK. Done. And then there are some other bits that stretch the old suspension bridge of disbelief a bit. For instance, when Mim runs away in search of real mom (leaving behind Dad and unreal stepmom), she's considered a missing child -- one who will eventually see fliers of herself. But wait. She's also carrying her cellphone. Do the letters G, P, and S mean nothing these days?
All that said, it's hard to put the book down (literally or figuratively). Mim is funny, witty, full of allusions, quirky as all get-out, and, thanks be, prone to running into all sorts of characters (savory and un-) on the road from Mississippi to Cleveland. Yes, these characters give her quirkiness a run for its money, but what do you expect for a Greyhound full of strange strangers? By the final 3%, Arnold has offered up a little of everything -- happy, sad, pathos, bathos, love interest, scary moment, mishaps, perhaps, etc. Not bad for a day's work, in other words, and one of the better YAs I've read in the past few years. Is that a recommendation? Do the letters Y, E, and S mean nothing these days?
78 of 93 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully written narrative. But not for children or young teens.
By SBCincinnati
As a parent of three teenagers I simply cannot recommend this book to the audience to which it is being marketed. Viking has categorized this novel as a children’s book for ages 12 and up.
Mr. Arnold has written a story about 16 year old Mim, who upon hearing that her mother is very ill decides to run away from her dad and stepmom and embark on a journey from Jackson, Mississippi, to Cleveland, Ohio to see her mom.
The author does a fantastic job of weaving past and present narratives together. The phrasing in this book is often breathtakingly beautiful. Mim’s mental health is in question. Her dad and most recent psychiatrist believe she is mentally ill, in fact she is prescribed and takes Abilify. Her mom and Mim both question this diagnosis. When she runs away, Mim stops taking her prescription, so the reader is left wondering till the very end whether what is happening is real or not. Arnold masters the feat of maintaining just the right amount of tension between these two possible outcomes.
So given that this is a well written book, why my three starts instead of five?
As adult, I am not tempted to follow Mim’s footsteps, but a teenager might find her story inspiring and try to follow suit.
So here are my concerns as parent:
1. Shortly after leaving Mim decides to go cold turkey on her medication. Yes, there is the question whether Mim has even been properly prescribed this medication, but if a young reader is taking an anti-psychotic drug the last thing I would want a book to encourage is for a young person to decide on their own to stop taking it, as withdrawal symptoms can be very severe. Symptoms include depression, anxiety and hallucinations.
2. Within my own circle of friends there have been runaway daughters who caught the local Greyhound bus and ended up in the hands of sex-traffickers. Thank goodness, they ended up being rescued by law enforcement, but not before some terrible things happened to them. Therefore, I really have issues with a book where a teenage girl runs away on a Greyhound and later teams up with an adult male and remains relatively safe.
3. Speaking of the adult male, about half way through the book 16 year old Mim befriends 21 year old Beck, along with a mentally challenged teen named Walt. Mim totally crushes on Beck and decides that she trusts him enough to travel in a car with him and Walt. Now, Beck turns out to be a stand-up guy, which is good for Mim, but paints a naïve picture for a pre-teen and young teen reader.
4. The language. I am not sure when it became okay to use the f-word multiple times in a children’s book, but this is the second children’s book that I have read recently where the f-word or a variation thereof is peppered throughout the book. I would have thought this would have automatically changed the category to YA or adult. (16 or 17 years old and up)
This book touches a lot of heavy subject matter, including: suicide, mental-illness, adultery, divorce, sexual assault, the rape of a child, homosexuality (The derogatory terms used by some teens describing a gay person are highly offensive), death, treatment of those with mental challenges. The breadth of subject matter is another reason I think this book is more appropriate for a much older audience.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Boom, a life changing novel
By Sab H.
This was probably a 3 or 4-star book for me up until the middle of it. And then the brilliance of what seemed an overdone smart-ass witty writing hit me. Here's what I think happened: it was like meeting a weird stranger that keeps baffling you with his/her oddities--after enough time with this stranger, strangely enough, he/she becomes a non-stranger. As in, you know this person now. Thus, once I got over the weirdness that is Mary Iris Malone and the odd too-smart spot-on writing of this novel, I fell deeply in love with it. It now shone brightly, separating this wonderful story from every other novel I've ever read.
I started collecting bits of its brilliance in the form of quotes, like the following:
"I call it Mim's Theorem of Monkey Do Monkey Don't, and what it boils down to is this: it is my belief that there are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of us how not to act."
In the same witty note of Mim herself I would add, damn straight it is. That quote will resonate with me for the ages because it seems to have put into the exact words a theory I've had in my mind forever. Aren't those the best quotes? Damn straight.
Or the absolute hats-off coolness of the dialogue in instances like:
"So--I think my best course of action here is to just, you know, let the ridiculousness of that sentence marinate."
Boom, indeed. Let me tell you this: if you feel like I did a few chapters in, if the oddness and wittiness feels forced at first, push on and keep going. By the time you close the book at the end, you'll be grateful you did. Very few times in life do we encounter books that resonate so very deeply with a generation and its readers. This book is indeed a collection of oddities and it's told in a wonderful voice that I will miss dearly. The characters, my God, the characters. They were amazing. The slow onion-peel of the plot, beyond amazing. Do yourself a favor and pick this book up soon.
NOTE: I would say it's for the more mature readers in the Young Adult readership. I highly recommend the audio version, if you're into that.
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