How Long to Read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

How Long Does it Take to Read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge. In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.

How long is A Day in the Life of Abed Salama?

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall is 171 pages long, and a total of 42,921 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama aloud.

What Reading Level is A Day in the Life of Abed Salama?

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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