It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution. Through it all, she works her way through the personal and the political of intersectionality as she comes to identify as a mixed-race person and queer femme of colour, as a disabled person grappling with chronic illness (she has suffered from fibromyalgia since 1998) and as an abuse survivor. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares.
Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Dirty River aloud.
Dirty River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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