It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland by J. A. Marzán
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena¿s Newyorican life in ¿the country I was offered.¿Brought to New York from Puerto Rico when he was seven, Eddie Loperena grew up dreaming of returning to his island paradise. As he approaches forty, the loss of his wife and his business partner have landed Eddie squarely at a crossroads, so he closes his legal practice, intending to write, when he gets a call from his estranged boyhood friend Carlos, his ¿big brother¿ in the neighborhood, now a well-known drug dealer Carlos extracts a favor from Eddie: to hold two suitcases full of ¿valuable papers.¿ After Eddie picks up the suitcases, Carlos disappears. During a run for political office, Eddie¿s secret connection to Carlos is exposed and he is accused of absconding with Carlos¿ drug money.Eddie survives cops and a vindictive D.A. as well as rumors that he has disappeared with Carlos¿ drug money, but he cannot allow the New York newspapers to reduce his complex decision to help Carlos to a pseudo-social science portrayal of a two-dimensional, American minority puppet show. In self-exile, Eddie writes a tragicomic satire of the seventies, of the island of his birth that cast him adrift, and of his minority membership in ¿the country I was offered.¿ Writing from a place he calls Nowhere, Eddie Loperena implores: Don¿t Let Me Die In Disneyland!
Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland by J. A. Marzán is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland aloud.
Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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