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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.

Mosquitoland by David Arnold will be one of our GBRs for May 2023.

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Chapter 6
(view spoiler)[ Well I think Mim's mom is in a mental hospital and dad has decided she just doesn't need to know that, which makes me sad. I love the little old lady who's been sitting next to her, but I see this toilet thing following her the rest of the bus ride (the rest of the book????). I'm still not sure if I'm sold on the book but I'm still reading. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 13 (view spoiler)[ Well this bus trip is a dumpster fire. Creepy Poncho Guy is the absolute worst and Arlene is dead. I want Mim to find her mom and Utopia in time for fireworks and also get this box to Ahab. Probably can’t have it both ways and no guarantee she doesn’t just wake up from a crazy dream from her meds at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 24 (view spoiler)[ The creep got what was coming for him, but at what cost? I don’t think Mim should feel responsible. We can each of us only do so much. (hide spoiler)]

End (view spoiler)[ I’m slightly devastated but glad it wasn’t all a figment of her imagination. (hide spoiler)]