How Long to Read Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater

By Irma Pineda

How Long Does it Take to Read Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 11 minutes to read Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda

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

Description

A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home. Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater / Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ / La Nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos is a trilingual collection by one of the most prominent Indigenous poets in Latin America: Irma Pineda. The book consists of 36 persona poems that tell a story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and that person’s partner who waits at home, in the poet’s hometown of Juchitán, Oaxaca. According to Periódico de Poesía, a journal based at UNAM (Mexico’s national university), when it was published in 2007, this book established Pineda “one of the strongest poets working in Zapotec, the [Mexican] Native language with the largest literary production.”

How long is Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater?

Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda is 131 pages long, and a total of 32,881 words.

This makes it 44% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 59 minutes to read Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater aloud.

What Reading Level is Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater?

Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater is suitable for students ages 10 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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