Mosquitoland by David Arnold

This is a book I read this summer and I loved this book so much.  I can't remember a book that had so many powerful lines.  Mim is a character you will love.  She is funny and quirky and takes the journey of a lifetime from Mississippi to Cleveland in order to visit her sick mom.  Along the way she meets an amazing cast of characters, each unique in their own way.  I cannot recommend this book enough.    

From Amazon:

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.