She suffers from a lot of things, one that nobody knows about (not even her parents), she’s quirky, funny and beautiful. Mary Iris Malone (MIM) is the protagonist of this novel. It doesn’t have plot twists at every turn but it has two plot twists that I didn’t see coming at all. It has everything a book needs: humor, sadness, happiness, cuteness, bravery and beautiful quotes. This is a cute contemporary about a road trip combined with a coming of age story AND some serious issues both physic and mental. I haven’t been this in love with a book since ACOMAF, The Wrath and The Dawn or Everything Everything. If you want to read an amazing book, just pick up Mosquitoland. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.” (Mar.„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. Mim’s triumphant evolution is well worth the journey. There is no shortage of humor in Mim’s musings, interspersed with tender scenes and a few heart-pounding surprises. In my book, Carls are a top-notch species”). Determined to get back to her mother, Mim hops a bus to Cleveland, beginning an Odysseus-like adventure that introduces a delightfully eclectic cast of characters, who are made all the more memorable by Mim’s descriptions (“I’ve only known two other Carls in my lifetime-an insurgent moonshiner and a record store owner-both of whom taught me important. Mim, blind in one eye from a solar eclipse and suffering from a “misplaced epiglottis” that results in unpredictable spells of vomiting, is reeling from her parents’ divorce and an unclear psychiatric diagnosis when she is dragged to Mississippi by her father and new stepmother. Newcomer Arnold’s protagonist, 16-year-old Mim Malone, is as hold-nothing-back honest as they come, which makes the narrative she provides about her outlandish trek from Mississippi to Cleveland wholly enjoyable.
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