How Long to Read Catina’s Haircut

How Long Does it Take to Read Catina’s Haircut?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 44 minutes to read Catina’s Haircut by Paola Corso

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

Description

Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant’s United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Through an oral tradition embedded in the stone of memory and the flow of its reinvention, their passionate tale of resistance and transformation courses forward into new generations in a new world. A woman threatens to join the land reform struggle in her Calabrian hill town, against her husband’s will, during a call for revolution in 1919. A brother and sister turn to the village sorceress in Fascist Italy to bring rain to their father’s drought-stricken farm. In Pittsburgh, new immigrants witness a miraculous rescue during the Great Flood of 1936. A young girl courageously dives into the Allegheny River to save her grandfather’s only memento of the old country. With only broken English to guide her, a widow hops a bus in search of live chickens to cook for Easter dinner in her husband’s memory. An aging woman in the title story is on a quest to cut the ankle-length hair as hard as the rocky soil of Calabria in a drought. A lonely woman who survived World War II bombings in her close-knit village, struggles to find community as a recent immigrant. A daughter visits her mother’s hill town to try and fulfill a wish for her to see the Fata Morgana. These haunting images permeate Corso’s linked stories of loss, hope, struggle, and freedom. An official selection of The Sons of Italy® Book Club Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

How long is Catina’s Haircut?

Catina’s Haircut by Paola Corso is 103 pages long, and a total of 26,059 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Catina’s Haircut Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 22 minutes to read Catina’s Haircut aloud.

What Reading Level is Catina’s Haircut?

Catina’s Haircut 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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