The Little People
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The Little People
Narrated by:
Kevin Pariseau
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Narrated by:
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Kevin Pariseau
About this listen
They are citizens of our town who own property, pay taxes, and vote. They dress like us. They speak like us. They eat like us. They are two inches tall.
From Steven Millhauser, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler and one of the most imaginative and essential voices of our time, comes a fable about a race of miniature people and the way of life they have come master within our own. By turns enchanting and provocative, The Little People explores the fascination and unease the little people create in us, examines our private desire to disappear into their world, and reveals what happens when our personal and romantic lives inevitably collide.
©2020 Steve Millhauser (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.Listeners also enjoyed...
I have to write 12 more words but it really doesn’t require anything other than ‘weird’.
Strange.
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Look, the author has won awards, clearly has a nice prose, interesting ideas, and the narration does a good job of making it seem like a radio documentary or This American Life or whatever, but this story gave me the creeps and I'm not just talking about the bizarre and somewhat graphic sex scene that came out of nowhere (no kink shaming here).
I don't know very much about this author, but there is a real heteronormative white dude vibe going on here that made me extremely uncomfortable. From the descriptions of the the eponymous 'Little People', physically and socially as a homogeneous, 'exotic', and 'model minority' group, and the way size is with this seemingly conflated with ideas about 'race' and people with restricted growth or short stature who already face stereotypes and fetishisation. The unneeded and dissonant inclusion of the descriptions of sex only heighten everything previously mentioned and really did feel specifically a kink thing -- which is fine, folx can write kink fiction all they want for themselves and their audience, but the inclusion here seems very odd and kinda yikes in context.
I'm happy to chalk this down as a 'just not for me', and I do think there is some at least questionable stuff going on here (though I don't think it is necessarily purposeful or with malice), but I think the concept itself, while not particularly original, has potential to tell an interesting tale. I think it just needed to be handled in a more aware tone and sensibility.
I'm Not Sure About This One
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otherwise interesting
interesting but why all the sex?
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It’s actually quite fascinating in a weird way, but also quite intriguing and may leave you feeling quite chilled by it all, if you further think of how vulnerable The Little People really are!
Weird and Intriguing
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