Mosquito Coast recounts the adventures of Allie Fox, a brilliant, talkative, irascible, manic inventor. Fox is a mass of contradictions, disdaining religion and American pop culture but refusing to buy foreign products. When Fox is unappreciated at work, he impulsively decides to move the family to the tropics. In Honduras, Fox purchases Jeronimo, a remote settlement where he creates a comfortable village. However, Fox becomes deceptive and delusional, and he ultimately destroys all he's built. As Fox leads his family into the jungle, he becomes more mentally unbalanced, ultimately causing his own destruction.
In the beginning of the tale, Allie Fox is critical of much of American pop culture, including the educational system, religion and the consumer society typified by aerosol cheese. Fox works as a handyman and jack-of-all-trades for a local farmer. After Fox's latest invention.....
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