It takes the average reader 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Flying Close to the Sun by Cathy Wilkerson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided: the absence of women’s voices then, and in the retelling; the incompetence and the egos; the hundreds of bombs detonated in protest which caused little loss of life but which were also ineffective in fomenting...
Flying Close to the Sun by Cathy Wilkerson is 432 pages long, and a total of 108,864 words.
This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to read Flying Close to the Sun aloud.
Flying Close to the Sun is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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