Munmun
Amulet Books · Hardcover · April 3, 2018
In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth.
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- Who it’s for
- A darkly funny adventure makes economic inequality impossible to keep at arm’s length.
- Themes
- Economic inequality, Wealth and social class, Survival in a hostile world
- Genres
- Satirical YA, YA Science Fiction, Homelessness & Poverty for Teens
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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.
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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.
Inequality, Made Visceral
A darkly funny adventure makes economic inequality impossible to keep at arm’s length.
Come here for
- A startling world where physical size tracks wealth
- Humor that shares space with genuine danger and heartbreak
Expect
- An adventure shaped by poverty and unequal power
- A warm, satirical tone with a dark edge
Where it sits
| Homelessness & Poverty for Teens | 51% |
|---|---|
| YA Science Fiction | 38% |
| Satirical YA | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Dark Comedy YA
- Class & Inequality for Teens
- Homelessness & Poverty for Teens
- Authors
- Jesse Andrews
- Publisher
- Amulet Books
- Published
- April 3, 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Economic inequality · Wealth and social class · Survival in a hostile world
- Reading lane
- Dark Comedy YA