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  • The Mole People

  • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
  • By: Jennifer Toth
  • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
  • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (61 ratings)

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The Mole People

By: Jennifer Toth
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.

©1993 Jennifer Toth (P)2019 Tantor
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Great book

A very great ethnography of a subculture of homelessness, or houselessness, that is full of moving stories of a wide variety of what humanity is.

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intriguing account of NYC's underground homeless

this puts human faces to the homeless and demonstrates how addiction, mental illness and a sometimes broken system forces people into the underground.

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Compelling Read.

She writes about the real experiences of the people living under NYC. And I couldn't stop reading (listening). A truer drama you will never encounter. Especially in American society today when too many folks, children and veterans, are homeless.

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Powerful.

This book really touched me. Being a born and raised resident of New York City and riding the subway, I always wondered where the homeless go
or really live. This. book showed them as people not crazy,scary,monsters. The lives of PEOPLE

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As a sociologist, I found this story quite compelling.

A very well researched & fascinating look at lives below the surface. Great book to listen to on a long trip.

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Wow. Just wow

Fascinating piece of social anthropology. Thought provoking. Yet another set of social castes worth exploring

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Homeless are people too

Amazing narration.
When you walk down NY, and you see a crazy man on the street or people drug out of their wits, it’s hard to remember that these folks are human too, that person is someone’s child, someone’s parent, we don’t know how or why they’re in the situation they’re, and we shouldn’t judged them for it, I don’t think I’m any better than them

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