Mosquitoland

Mim, Beck, and Walt go to a baseball game because Walt loves baseball. Beck says that if they accidentally get separated, they should all meet back at the bronze statue of Kluszewski. Walt calls it the “rendezvouski” (210), and Mim is reminded why she loves Walt so much. 

Mim leaves Beck and Walt in their seats to get a pretzel. While she is waiting in line, a young child asks their mother for food, and she yells at the child. Mim chastises the woman, and everyone in the line claps. The man in front of Mim is wearing the same shoes as Poncho Man, and seeing this makes her vomit. He yells, and she runs to the bathroom. Mim returns to her seat seeming upset, and Beck admits that he’s on this journey to visit his foster sister, whom he hasn’t seen in a long time.

Mim writes to Isabel to explain an important memory: She was eight, and she and her mom were listening to records in the garage. Eve said that Jimi Hendrix went crazy, probably from “Drugs and fame” (222), and Mim’s dad got upset at Eve for saying something like that to an eight-year-old.