Topic > Mosquitoland by David Arnold - 1076

SYNOPSIS: Mim's father recently divorced her mother and married Kathy, a waitress at Denny's whom he met shortly after separating from his wife. Therefore Mim's mother moved to Cleveland. The relationship between Mim and her father isn't the best, she is much closer to her mother who is half Cherokee and more of a free spirit in the relationship. Mim's father is determined to cure her as she shows signs of manic depressive like her mother's sister Isabel who committed suicide. But then it will be revealed that the letters are addressed to Mim's unborn half-sister. Kathy is pregnant. Mim was recently prescribed Abilify but does not want to take the drug. The entire book will be told to us through a collection of letters addressed to Isabel (who we assume is the sister of Mim's mother, Isabel). heroine Mim (Mary Iris Malone) who will hop on a Greyhound bus after overhearing a conversation in the principal's office between the principal, her father and her stepmother (of whom Mim is not particularly fond) in which Mim realizes that his mother is ill. Without thinking twice, Mim decides that she must go to her mother who lives in Cleveland, before or during Memorial Day (since this was their special day). With intrepid tunnel vision, Mim boards a Greyhound bus bound for Cleveland to find her. mother.Mim has to dodge Poncho Man as she calls him. There's something fishy about this man. He continues to hide from Mim and make her uncomfortable. Then Mim meets Arlene, an older woman sitting next to her holding a small wooden box. Arlene and Mim talk Even though Mim doesn't like talking to strangers, there's something about Arlene that's different. In Mim's house... middle of the paper... he enters. Mim is arrested. Kathy explains how worried she and her father were. And that he loves her. Mim still can't do it. Kathy agrees to let Mim visit her mother as long as she comes with them. A very pregnant Kathy accompanies Mim, Beck and Walt to what is not a hospital but a rehabilitation center. Mim slowly begins to put the pieces together. Her mother doesn't have a terminal illness like she thought, her mother is an alcoholic who didn't want to see her, which is why her father and Kathy took her away. The meeting between mother and daughter is a disappointment for Mim. His mother is just a ghost of her former self. As Kathy and Mim leave, it is clear that Mim will give Kathy a chance and that this trip has made her a new Mim. Once outside Mim finds a note from Beck and Walt telling her that they had to go but would meet again soon.