<div><i>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. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.</i><br><br>After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the wastelands” of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland.<br><br>So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.<br><br>Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, <i>Mosquitoland</i> is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.</div>