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Mosquitoland
- Narrateur(s): Phoebe Strole
- Durée: 8 h et 26 min
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Mosquitoland
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Description
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.
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.
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.
Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Arnold proves his worth as a top-notch storyteller on his first literary go-round, which is reminiscent of Ferris Bueller's Day Off if done by John Hughes with Jack Kerouac...Mosquitoland stings in all the right places, which is why it will no doubt be many teenagers' new favorite book and win over the crustiest old-timer, too." (USA Today)
"David Arnold's sparkling, startling, laugh-out-loud debut...speaks to the sweetness of life, the courage of love and the blinkers that adolescents may need to remove to see what is truly around them." (Wall Street Journal)
"David Arnold combines brio with compassion in this captivating first novel, which holds surprises, big and small, right to the end.... Illuminating." (The Washington Post)