• 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 (44 ratings)

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The Mole People

By: Jennifer Toth
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Publisher's Summary

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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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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Wow. Just wow

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

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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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  • 08-01-21

Very Interesting but a bit odd

I found the stories of the people so interesting and insightful into a world I had never even considered. That being said I thought it was odd and a bit disrespectful that the narrator puts on voices to imitate specific people.