How Long to Read My Body Is a Big Fat Temple

How Long Does it Take to Read My Body Is a Big Fat Temple?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon

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

Description

My Body Is A Big Fat Temple is a memoir that charts the emotional journey of becoming a mother with humor and honesty, as well as investigating the natal shortcomings of our culture. It tracks Dillon, a writer in her thirties, as she debates having children, and then suffers a miscarriage, morning sickness, physical changes and impairments, anxiety, labor and delivery, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting during a plague, and finally blossoming into her new identity as a mother. This isn't the airbrushed billboard for motherhood women are too-often presented to preserve the sacred image of Madonna and Baby. Dillon prepares her readers for what to really expect--dry heaves, belly hair, dark nipples, crotch lightning, sweat, pain, delirium, lots of tears, and ultimately joy--so the odyssey is given its fair due. The cost of creating life is astronomical. It requires resilience and strength (and lots of bathroom breaks). But more importantly, these truths need to be shared in order to normalize them. With more stories like these, women with reservations for motherhood, and those in the midst of its fever dream, won't feel so alone. Pregnancy is a human imperative, endured by so many, and yet there is very little narrative nonfiction on the topic--I looked--which only makes the experience more isolating. The stories of women matter. The stories of mothers matter. Let's make ourselves heard.

How long is My Body Is a Big Fat Temple?

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read My Body Is a Big Fat Temple Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read My Body Is a Big Fat Temple aloud.

What Reading Level is My Body Is a Big Fat Temple?

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple 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.

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