It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read Motherless Child - Stories from a Life by Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and after years of trying to find her, she finds you. Now come the hard questions. She's healthy, beautiful, and successful, but she wants to know why you gave her away and why you didn't marry her father. And there is also the unspoken question of "What kind of black woman gives her baby away?" How do you explain to her that giving her away was the best gift you could offer? This is Sarah Weathersby's first published work, a coming-of-age-in-the-sixties-single-black-pregnant and on the way to Germany, memoir.
Motherless Child - Stories from a Life by Sarah Gordon Weathersby is 270 pages long, and a total of 67,500 words.
This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 8 minutes to read Motherless Child - Stories from a Life aloud.
Motherless Child - Stories from a Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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