It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Life and Death in a Small Southern Town by Gayle Graham Yates
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal impressions with the words of Shubuta people telling their own stories, Yates offers a rich narrative of the town from its Choctaw prehistory...
Life and Death in a Small Southern Town by Gayle Graham Yates is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.
This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Life and Death in a Small Southern Town aloud.
Life and Death in a Small Southern Town is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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