How Long to Read A House of Sticks

How Long Does it Take to Read A House of Sticks?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read A House of Sticks by Belinda Garcia

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

Description

A hilarious, bittersweet coming of age memoir!A HOUSE OF STICKS is a story of the human spirit, about the strength that can come from loss and poverty, and the triumph that comes with facing each day with hope and laughter, no matter the odds against you."I never danced with my father, but I danced in his shed with his sawdust swirling around my bone-thin ankles. At the old age of eleven, I sound morbid, but Daddy is not dead, he has just abandoned us like his other four kids. Joe never divorced his legal wife, making my siblings and me bastards, and our mother a fool. Daddy is a bigamist, and my parent's marriage is a misdemeanor--but the only crime Joe ever really committed was leaving me."Carpenter Joe Vasquez always wanted to build his wife and kids a house with his very own hands, but sometimes a man has a dream that can rip a family apart.Joe's family was dysfunctional because of him. Yet, Belinda's siblings inherited his musical gifts and she his talent for math and telling stories. As Joe spiraled deeper into alcoholism and had difficulty holding down a job, his dream began to unravel.Eventually, with a sick, uneducated mother and a father who was mean when he was too often drunk and vanishing sometimes for weeks at time, the kids had to grow up fast, feed the family, pay the mortgage, and the utilities.From award-winning fiction author Belinda Vasquez Garcia (pen names Belinda Austin and B. Austin) comes another chapter in her stranger-than-fiction life, the funny, heart-warming, heart twisting, A House of Sticks.

How long is A House of Sticks?

A House of Sticks by Belinda Garcia is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A House of Sticks Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read A House of Sticks aloud.

What Reading Level is A House of Sticks?

A House of Sticks is suitable for students ages 12 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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