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Munmun
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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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? From the bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a brilliant, warm, skewering social novel for our times in the tradition of Great Expectations, 1984 and Invisible Man.
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Cityofamber
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Panpan

This book was a little too weird for me.

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TheBookstorePodcast
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Pickpick

OH DANG! In Munmun, the size of your body scales literally to how much money you have. The poorest are the size of rats, billionaires are like giants

It‘s a satire about money and class in the Jonathan Swift and Dickens tradition except if they used the word “peen” as an insult. Body scaling is a brilliant illustration for what he‘s taking on here-sometimes being poor is a physical disadvantage. It‘s hilarious and way too real. I loved it.
-C

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Eggbeater
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Panpan

❎ Strike 1. Valid points about income inequality, but I could not stomach the hammering execution.

❎ Strike 2. The. Whole. Book. was full of intentional misspellings. It detracted from the story and made it veryhardtoread.

❎ Strike 3. The MC is a misgynistic twit. I spent the entire book hoping his ass would get stepped on so it would be over. #teamsquish

SexyCajun 😂😂🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️omg 😂😂😂😂 6y
LibrarianRyan Why the intentional misspellings? 6y
Eggbeater @LibrarianRyan I think the author was trying to show that the poor receive substandard education, but it was over-the-top and annoying. As someone who grew up poor, I found it insulting. 6y
LibrarianRyan @Eggbeater thanks. I was never intrigued by the cover and you have officially put me on the side of nope. 6y
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MidnightBookGirl
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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This is such a weird book! At first, I was worried that I'd want to bail on it (which was scary because it's the September book club pick for the adults who read YA book club that I run at the bookstore) but once I got use to the world and slang, I got sucked in. It also made me realize that I don't read lot of YA written by dudes. I'm over halfway done and can't wait to discuss this!

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Eggbeater
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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The rich are giants and the poor are rat sized and I've never found myself wishing a main character would get stepped on before. I am not a good person. #teamsquish #splatthebrat

kgriffith Just snorted 🤣 6y
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Clare_Riley
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Mehso-so

Well what to say about his book? It‘s an original, if you put to one side the language used in books like A Clockwork Orange and Ridley Walker, I suppose. I‘ve read those books, and I found this one really quite challenging. It was more the stream of consciousness writing, I think. There was so much that didn‘t need to be said. Interesting story and premis, but I‘m glad I didn‘t buy it (NetGalley). It just felt too slow.

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Gryffleclaw95
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Mehso-so

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This is the type of book that you'll either love or hate. For me, the premise sounded super interesting and promising, but the way the story was carried out and the author's preference in using poor grammar made me unimpressed with this book.

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laurieluna
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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My current reads (tagged book on Kindle...not entirely sure what I think of it yet. It's a bit too bizarre...)
Also just remembered it was my 1 year Litsyversary yesterday! Can't believe I've been chatting with you lovely people for a year now. Here's to many more. #cheers #litsyversary

TrishB Happy litsyversary 🎉🎉 6y
batsy Cool :) Happy Litsyversary 🎉📚🎉📚 6y
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Jas16 Happy Litsyversary 🎉📚🙌🏽 6y
JessClark78 Happy Litsyversary! 🎊🎉🎊📚 6y
Dragon 👍😀🎉 6y
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Preciouz29
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
Bailedbailed

The premise intrigued me, but the execution forced me to stop reading for my own sanity. I got maybe a quarter of the way through and the spelling and grammar and all that just made it too hard to continue. Someone tell me how it ends!

laurieluna I've just started this and am feeling the same. It seems from other reviews to be a love it or hate it read! 6y
Preciouz29 @miralunasbooknook well if you actually make it through, I‘d love to know the ending! 6y
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FountainBookstore
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Pickpick

I can‘t recommend this enough. In this universe, poor people are the size of rats and rich people are the size of skyscrapers with everyone else falling somewhere in between. Excellent and exciting dystopian and a great launching pad to talk about economics in a meaningful way. Also, the main character is a boy. FINALLY SOMETHING I CAN SELL FOR BOYS!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!

Snow Sounds interesting! Has it been released yet? 6y
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SheilaGrau
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Pickpick

Such an interesting premise, I was dying to see how it played out, and it played out brilliantly. Very moving and powerful satire with a fascinating main character. Loved it!

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kamoorephoto
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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I tried my hardest to get an early copy of this to review but alas no luck, BUT thanks to my devilish B&N, they had it on the shelves too early and I picked up a copy today 😹 It wins a prize for strangest title, coolest design on the cover (under dust jacket), and most wonderful beginning quote (I wish I‘d heard it as a child). Looking forward to reading it 👍🏼
#munmun

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LibrarianRyan
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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I do t really care for this cover, but the story intrigues me.

April 3

#coverlove #YAedition

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SassenachTheBookWizard
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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Bailedbailed

Well...I'm pretty sure that was the weirdest and most uncomfortable first 30 pages of a book I've ever read.

I've currently got a resting "wtf" face while I move on from this.

IamIamIam 😂😂😂 6y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Gonna need more info ‘cause that synopsis sounds like my kind of weird. 6y
SassenachTheBookWizard @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I just put some details on GoodReads! 6y
VanChocStrawberry 😂 best review of a bail ever! 6y
ReadingRover Totally seems like a book I would read. 6y
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SassenachTheBookWizard
Munmun | Jesse Andrews
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I gotta get back to working on my stack of arcs!

ReadingSusan Me too! I have too many. And not enough time. 6y
ItsAngel Me too! And I got 2 more in the mail today! 😱😝 6y
SassenachTheBookWizard @readingsusan we really need to find a way to monetize our reading time...enough that I could quit my job 6y
ReadingSusan @SassenachTheBookWizard seriously! That would be amazing. Someone needs to pay me per page I read🤣🤣 6y
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