Even with his eyes closed, he knew where to find me. She’s Andie from Pretty in Pink confronting the Scylla and Charybdis of current America with a couple of other travelers she encounters on the way.Ĭlosing his eyes again, Beck repositions his head on the back of his seat, and in one sure movement, reaches over and grabs my hand. USA Today called Mosquitoland “ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off if done by John Hughes with Jack Kerouac.” I can see the point, but Mim with her own anomalous collection of oddities has the intense self-centered reflection of the Millennial Generation without the lightness of a Ferris Bueller. She buys a ticket to ride on a Greyhound and before even setting foot on board, begins a series of life-defining adventures that allude to everything from The Odyssey to Alice in Wonderland to Moby Dick. She leaves Mosquitoland with only about $800 in stolen cash, a tube of her mother’s favorite lipstick and a bag of chips. It is time for the 16-year-old Mim to hit the road on her own. Now, on the day Mim gets sent to the principal’s office for yet another violation of her high school’s code, she overhears her Dad and Kathy say that her mom has a disease. Mary Iris Malone, her self-described heroine of David Arnold’s novel Mosquitoland, is having, in the words of Beth Henley, “a real bad day.” Her cherished mother has moved out of the family home after announcing she and Mim’s father are divorcing, Mim’s dad has married Kathy Sharone Malone and the new rhyming couplet have moved the family 933 miles away from their Ohio home to the “wastelands of Mississippi.
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