Actually, Mim would love to avoid interactions with people altogether, but the trip is full of meeting and getting close to strangers. And of course he is getting on the same bus, so it isn't just phone calls from her worried stepmother that Mim will be avoiding. The Problem: Before Mim has even boarded the bus, she has an encounter with an incredibly creepy and intense guy in a poncho.
She has had enough of not getting straight answers from her father and Kathy, and the hole she feels left behind by her mother has become too much to bear. But Mim is determined to make it to Cleveland by Labor Day to see her mother. Skipping school, stealing travel money from her stepmother Kathy, buying a ticket, and boarding the bus will all prove to be the easy part. In between explanations to the reader, Mim is also writing a letter to Isabel, explaining the situation to her as well. It is the first thing she tells you about herself before proceeding to explain how she ended up on a Greyhound bus headed to Cleveland, approximately 947 miles away from where she lives in Mississippi. The Situation: Sixteen year-old Mary Iris Malone, or Mim, is not okay. Plus it is YA, which made me even more excited.
But I certainly thought it when reading the synopsis of David Arnold's Mosquitoland. Unless the subject matter is super heavy and raising my arms high in the air and yelling, even in my mind, just isn't the appropriate response. Road Trip!!! That is what I think whenever I read the book jacket on any book that has a road trip in it.
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