Its an alternately pointed, amusing, and emotional exploration of inequality.

So it might seem like a big departure from my other two books.

See the cover and read the excerpt below.

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Excerpt from Munmun,by Jesse Andrews

Being littlepoor is notsogood.

I know I know, you think you know this already, howabout I just tell you though.

I want to see if this makes you laugh.

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A middlerich kid stepped on our house and crushed my dad to death.

Then that same year a cat attacked my mom at the dump and snapped her spine.

Did you blurt a little giggly laugh?

No you didnt, okay good, ofcourse thanks for not laughing, sorry for being the Laugh Police.

That story to me is just not super funny.

But to other people, a littlebit funny.

We were as littlepoor as you could get, a tenth of middlescale, about as big as rats.

We preferred to say squirrels, because a squirrel is a little bigger and ofcourse less disgusting.

We lived in the beachy capital of Lossy Indica, down in an alleyway near the docks.

This kid Jasper felt terrible obviously.

And also the kids who were bullying him.