It takes the average reader 7 hours and 16 minutes to read Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's...
Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is 426 pages long, and a total of 109,056 words.
This makes it 144% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 55 minutes to read Off the Books aloud.
Off the Books is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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