It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Birth Mother by Joanna Wiebe
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
BIRTH MOTHER is a day-by-day account of the author's four-month trip to Mexico and Central America in the mid-1970s. What started out as a short trip over Christmas vacation became a much longer odyssey. The author lurched from one adventure to another, struggling to come to grips with troublesome parts of her past. As Joanna disappears into the social chaos of Guatemala City after a 7.3 earthquake, she plays a temporary role as La Maestra with a street gang, embracing a dark, dangerous and all-absorbing way of life. We may have forgotten the dark side of the hippie era, when unwed mothers...
Birth Mother by Joanna Wiebe is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Birth Mother aloud.
Birth Mother 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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