Mosquito

"I thought [THE HEALING] should have won the National Book Award last year, but 'Mosquito' is twice as long, Mosquito is half as articulate as Jones' earlier narrator and the simulation of orality is now constricting rather than liberating. I'm not arguing with the multiethnic, multiracial, multiclass and gender perspectives of MOSQUITO. They deserve more affecting, wiser, less self-promoting treatment. Jones creates interesting characters and pressing situations in a charged landscape, then maddeningly occludes them all with the hyper-realism of Mosquito's meandering and maundering voice. We hear little from the refugees. Instead, we get pages and pages of second-hand opinions about colonialism."Jones, Gayl is the author of 'Mosquito', published 2000 under ISBN 9780807083475 and ISBN 080708347X.