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Mosquitoland | October 7, 2015

by David Arnold (Viking Children’s/Penguin Random House, March 2015)

In an act of unplanned rebellion, Mim Malone runs away from her father, stepmom, and their new life in Mosquitoland, Mississippi and hops on a Greyhound bus for her mother in Ohio, armed with only a journal, some stolen savings, and a lipstick – her war paint. What follows is a journey through modern America, burning with surreal situations and eccentric characters — all of it salt-and-peppered with Mim’s unconventional vernacular, which will make you question the empty way you’ve used words until now. With humor, quirk, and an abundance of substance, Mosquitoland is a road trip story that manages to be so much more than the sum of its stages.


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