It takes the average reader 5 hours and 31 minutes to read Lives of Dust and Water by María Luz Cruz-Torres
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Along the coast of northwestern Mexico, "pink gold" may mean wealth for some, but the new global economy has imposed terrible burdens on many sectors of the population. State and regional economic development policies have supported the use of natural resources for commercial export, resulting in the rapid growth of agriculture and shrimp aquaculture. Environmental pressures have contributed to the degradation of marine ecosystems, and once self-reliant rural populations have been driven to wage and subsistence labor in order to survive. This book eloquently explains how contemporary rural...
Lives of Dust and Water by María Luz Cruz-Torres is 325 pages long, and a total of 82,875 words.
This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 32 minutes to read Lives of Dust and Water aloud.
Lives of Dust and Water is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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