Mosquitoland

 

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this YA novel about Mim who is trying to reunite with her mother after a divorce. Mim's father worries about Mim's quirkiness, that it is a harbinger of mental illness prevalent in his family. So with Mim as an unreliable narrator we embark with her on a crazy road trip full of adventures and a crew of pals she picks up along the way. All in all, it is just purely enjoyable. Do I like that one of the pals has Down-syndrome which they treat well, (yay), but also (and is even stated) as sort of a pet, no. Still, it emphasizes that we are all a bit crazy, we all have problems, we are all doing the best we can (even the evil step-mother). It is a refreshingly original, sensitive, funny, thoroughly satisfying book.
FYI: Does have some language. Although not jarringly so.

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