How Long to Read Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief

How Long Does it Take to Read Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief by Jessica Hendry Nelson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love—that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it. She needs to know what to do with it, how not to waste it, how to make something with it, how to honor it and put language to it. So, she places it with her brother, Eric, whose opioid addiction makes his death feel always imminent. With her partner, Jack, together for fifteen years. With her exhausted, grieving mother, her best friend Jessie, women at the gym she’s never had the courage to speak to, but loves completely. But mostly, she places it with her future child, the one she does not yet have but deeply wants. The child who is both the question of love—and the answer to it. So, when Jack suddenly confesses that he does not want to have children—not with her, not ever—the someday vessel for her boundless and insatiable love hunger swiftly disappears, taking with it a fundamental promise of her life: motherhood. Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief catalyzes from this place. Fluidly navigating through past, present, and future, Nelson asks: Where does her desire to have a child come from? How does wonder charge and change a life? Are the imperatives to make art and to make a child born from the same searching place? Are they both masked and misguided attempts to thwart death? Nelson investigates the tremulous makings and unmakings of our most intense and fragile bonds—family, friends, lovers—with searing insight, humor, and tenderness.

How long is Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief?

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief by Jessica Hendry Nelson is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief aloud.

What Reading Level is Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief?

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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