It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Girls in the Grass by Melanie Rae Thon
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Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in Melanie Rae Thon's eagerly awaited reissued collection, Girls in the Grass, explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence: eroticism and hypocrisy, love and violence, responsibility and guilt, adult inconstancy and the random cruelty of life and death.
Girls in the Grass by Melanie Rae Thon is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Girls in the Grass aloud.
Girls in the Grass is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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