Munmun, Jesse Andrews
Munmun, Jesse Andrews
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Munmun

Author: Jesse Andrews

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/22/2018


Synopsis

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers.

Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute—and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger, richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting stepped on. There are no cars or phones built small enough for them, or schools or hospitals, for that matter—there's no point, when no one that little has any purchasing power, and when salaried doctors and teachers would never fit in buildings so small. Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them?

A brilliant, warm, funny trip, unlike anything else out there, and a social novel for our time in the tradition of 1984 or Invisible Man. Inequality is made intensely visceral by an adventure and tragedy both hilarious and heartbreaking.

About Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and the screenwriter of that book's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie adaptation. He's also the author of The Haters, which Booklist called "effortlessly readable, deeply enjoyable," in a starred review. He lives in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 31, 2018

Munmun by Jesse Andrews is a young adult fantasy set in a world similar to ours but all of the occupants are different sizes based on how much money they have. The main character, Warner, and his sister Prayer are littlepoors, the smallest size. Their family are about the size of an average rat lead......more

Goodreads review by Allie on February 21, 2018

Five stars nodoubt but oh dang, filled with rage.......more

Goodreads review by D. B. Guin on January 07, 2018

This book was deeply weird, but pulled it off so well that I'm honestly shocked. I went into reading Munmun with trepidation because the premise reminded me a lot of that movie that just came out where Matt Damon shrinks himself, which looks horrible, but actually this book is good. It's very odd --......more

Goodreads review by Steve on May 01, 2018

If I were developing a required reading list for a class of high school students socioeconomic issues, this book would make the top of the list. I loved how well Jesse Andrews was able to portray economic and class differences using size as the metaphor. It was so effective at demonstrating how powe......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on April 29, 2018

This was just incredibly weird and not the good kind... The book has such a great plot and a massive potential but it fell flat-faced for me and it was just boring for me.......more