Gr 9 Up-'Being littlepoor is notsogood,' observes Warner, the rat-size narrator of this thought-provoking dystopian epic in which humans' physical size mirrors the amount of 'munmun' (money) in their bank accounts. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Inequality is made intensely visceral by an adventure and tragedy both hilarious and heartbreaking. Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them?Ī brilliant, warm, funny trip, unlike anything else out there, and a social novel for our time in the tradition of 1984 or Invisible Man. 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. 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. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute-and tiny. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers.

Inequality is made intensely visceral by an adventure and tragedy both hilarious and heartbreaking.In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person’s physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. 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. 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. 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.

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth.

Munmun by Jesse Andrews