It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Commitment by Mona Simpson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her children, and their collective search for a place in the world. A mother drives her eldest son, Walter, from their Los Angeles home to the University of California at Berkeley. No one realizes it, but this will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to a mental hospital, leaving her three children behind. Holding tight to his ambitions to become an architect, Walter copes with the sudden loss of financial and emotional support and becomes...
Commitment by Mona Simpson is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Commitment aloud.
Commitment is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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