It takes the average reader 5 hours to read Fifteen Lanes by S. J. Laidlaw
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in the fifteen lanes that comprise Mumbai's red light district Fifteen Lanes compellingly explores class, race and gender through the alternating voices of two teenage protagonists. Noor lives in a Mumbai brothel with her mother and siblings and is immensely grateful for the chance to go to school, hoping it will help her escape being sold into the sex trade. Grace is the Canadian daughter of the CEO of one of Mumbai's largest banks. When the two eventually meet at a NGO support centre for women and children, their lives and perspectives are irrevocably changed.
Fifteen Lanes by S. J. Laidlaw is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.
This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Fifteen Lanes aloud.
Fifteen Lanes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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