And like all great road trips, there are a whole lot of surprises along the way. It's completely true to life and utterly surreal. Mosquitoland is heartbreaking and heartwarming. And it's just a pleasure to sit shotgun with Mim throughout. He is a fierce believer in the power of kindness and community. Previous jobs include freelance musician/producer, stay-at-home dad, and preschool teacher. Mosquitoland by David Arnold: EW review By Stephan Lee Updated Februat 07:40 PM EST Advertisement Mosquitoland type Book genre Young Adult The pendulum has swung in YA. But over the course of 1,000 miles, Mim's trip takes all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, and she meets an entire cast of eccentric characters along the way. David Arnold is the author of Mosquitoland and Kids of Appetite. But now, her mother is dying, so Mim takes off on a north-bound odyssey on a Greyhound bus to return to her home in Ohio and her mom. Mim Malone has just been forced to leave her home in Northern Ohio to move in with her father and her new stepmom in Mississippi. Not to sound too much like Stefan from Saturday Night Live, but this book has everything. David Arnold's debut YA novel Mosquitoland captures that feeling, and as a bonus we get to travel along with a seriously great female character who would have made even Dean Moriarty proud. There's the beautiful and hidden places you see and the quirky characters you meet along the way. (Mar.Even before Jack Kerouac hit Route 66 to travel across the country, there was something almost mythical about the great American road trip.
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. This guide refers to the 2015 Penguin Random House edition. The novel was one of NPR’s and Amazon’s best books of 2015. In my book, Carls are a top-notch species”). David Arnold’s 2015 debut novel, Mosquitoland, is a coming-of-age story that’s intended for a young adult audience. 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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