The man in the poncho sits next to her and acts all creepy again. Mim messes up with the bus’ plumbing, stuff happens, they get onto another bus. She looked at the sun during a solar eclipse. Mim is schizophrenic and her father has been forcing her to take pills for it. Anyway, it’s revealed that Mim has an aunt named Isabel who was mentally ill. There’s also this man in a poncho who’s a real creeper. Arlene tells her about her gay nephew named Ahab. On the bus ride, she meets a woman named Arlene who has a special wooden box. She had overheard her step-mother, Kathy, and her father talking to the principal about how her mother was sick. It starts off with Mary Iris Malone aka Mim running away from Mississippi, heading for Cleveland to meet her mother. Mosquitoland is written as a first-person story as well as a collection of letters to someone named Isabel. Along the way, her life takes some detours, not all unwelcome, and Mim realises that perhaps there’s more to life than meets the eye. When she hears that her mother is sick, Mim runs away from home, heading for Cleveland. Mim Malone is dragged to Mississippi to live with her father’s new family.
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