It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Laughter Out of Place by Donna M. Goldstein
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offers a clear-eyed view of socially conditioned misery while focusing on the creative responses—absurdist and black humor—that people generate amid daily...
Laughter Out of Place by Donna M. Goldstein is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.
This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Laughter Out of Place aloud.
Laughter Out of Place is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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