How Long to Read Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid"

How Long Does it Take to Read Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid"?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid" by Faith Eidse

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

Description

Deeper than African Soil captures the romantic, pores-open wonder of a child raised among worlds. It unveils the adventure and suffering of revolution, disease, boarding school trauma, wrenching farewells and losses deeper than most people endure in a lifetime. It explores the nature of memory itself, why we repress it and how to call it forth, all five senses open. Daughter of Canadian Mennonites, Faith Eidse was separated from family at the scariest moments of her life. Amid postcolonial tensions in Congo, Canada and the U.S., Faith and her sisters—Hope, Charity and Grace—lived vivid lives, bridging cultures from their home (Dutch Mennonite) to their host villages in southern Manitoba, the American Midwest and southwestern Congo. Yet home was always changing—sometimes drastically. Faith seldom felt she truly belonged to the places they lived. In the United States, Faith was an immigrant. In her parents’ passport country, Canada, she was a visitor. In Congo, she claimed friendship, longing and memories. She related to all cultures yet owned none, formed identity from bits of home (first culture) and host (second or third) cultures to create a unique third culture. “Third culture kids” each have their own enriched, complicated story but share a diaspora of the heart and longing for home. (352pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2023.)

How long is Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid"?

Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid" by Faith Eidse is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid" Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid" aloud.

What Reading Level is Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid"?

Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary "Third Culture Kid" 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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