It takes the average reader 3 hours and 18 minutes to read Broken Promises by Frankie Berry Wise
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Broken Promises" is a stage play based on the main characters from the novel "Breaking the Chain." It centers on the Jackson's, a poor mulatto family, who struggle through many obstacles such as poverty, molestation, and murder. The main matriarch, Sarah Jackson, was abandoned by her white mother and given to a black family that abused her. At the age of eleven, she was again ushered off to live with an older white man, who would father her four children--John, Cleo, Lilly, and Rose. However, Sarah is determined for her family to rise above the chains of misery that bind them. When her four children fail to graduate from high school or go to college, she turns her hopes onto her granddaughter, Iris. Will Iris be the one to bring them out of poverty? Or will her dreams also fall through the cracks? Read the cast of characters, plots, settings, and dialogues as the Jackson family journey through scenes of their hopes, dreams, and broken promises.
Broken Promises by Frankie Berry Wise is 195 pages long, and a total of 49,725 words.
This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 31 minutes to read Broken Promises aloud.
Broken Promises is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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