It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia by Carmen Teresa Whalen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"We were poor but we had everything we needed," reminisces Do?a Epifania. Nonetheless, when a man she knew told her about a job in Philadelphia, she grasped the opportunity to leave Coamas. "He went to Puerto Rico and told me there were beans to cook. I came here and cooked for fourteen workers." In San Lorenzo, Do?a Carmen and her husband made the same decision: "We didn't want to, nobody wanted to leave. . . . There wasn't any alternative." Don Florencio recalls that in Salinas work had gotten scarce, "especially for the youth, the young men. . . . The farmworker that was used to cutting...
From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia by Carmen Teresa Whalen is 309 pages long, and a total of 80,031 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia aloud.
From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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