It takes the average reader 2 hours and 20 minutes to read Normal by Amy Bloom
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
With the humour, empathy and fine writing that grace her prize-winning fiction, Amy Bloom takes us into the world of the intersexed - transsexuals, crossdressers, hermaphrodites - a group of people larger and more 'normal' than most of us would imagine. There are men like Hale Hawbecker, a 'regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy' with a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender. Mothers like Jessie, who recognised that her little girl Lyle was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help him make the transgender transition. And...
Normal by Amy Bloom is 140 pages long, and a total of 35,000 words.
This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 11 minutes to read Normal aloud.
Normal is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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