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A review by dlberglund
Munmun by Jesse Andrews
4.0
What a weird book! Like reading MT Anderson's Feed, reading Munmun is a completely immersive experience. Our narrator Warner's rambling, slang-filled explanation of life as he knows it is both confusing and insightful, both frustrating and intriguing. And a lot of the time, just super weird.
It's a world where money = literal size. If you have enough money in your scale account, you can go to the bank and they will scale you up to the appropriate size. Get into debt? Smaller it is. Things like schools and hospitals don't get made for people the size of rats, so being poor is pretty horrible. Though I can't imagine it would be a picnic being the size of a barge, the 1% don't seem to mind.
Warner and his sister Prayer are likable enough, and some of their adventures are worth the investment. There were a few turns that I had a hard time sticking with, and I still can't decide if it's a fault of the writing or if it's just my personal taste.
Worth the read for the economic commentary and flashbacks to other books with characters the size of rats...
It's a world where money = literal size. If you have enough money in your scale account, you can go to the bank and they will scale you up to the appropriate size. Get into debt? Smaller it is. Things like schools and hospitals don't get made for people the size of rats, so being poor is pretty horrible. Though I can't imagine it would be a picnic being the size of a barge, the 1% don't seem to mind.
Warner and his sister Prayer are likable enough, and some of their adventures are worth the investment. There were a few turns that I had a hard time sticking with, and I still can't decide if it's a fault of the writing or if it's just my personal taste.
Worth the read for the economic commentary and flashbacks to other books with characters the size of rats...