It takes the average reader 2 hours and 5 minutes to read North East by Wendy McGrath
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In North East, Wendy McGrath expands on the story she began with Santa Rosa, as a working class couple living in 1960s Edmonton drift further apart while their young daughter tries to understand something she senses is hiding under the surface of her family and her neighbourhood. A visit to her grandparents’ farm in the country reveals the abject poverty the couple came to the city to escape, and the internecine marital strife that threatens to be born anew. McGrath’s crystalline, evocative prose conjures an image of the past that defies nostalgia, conjuring images of a city that is in the...
North East by Wendy McGrath is 124 pages long, and a total of 31,496 words.
This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 52 minutes to read North East aloud.
North East is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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