It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Searching for a Better Life by Sorcha Mahony
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city’s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one’s dreams. At the same time, it reflects on the issue of agency, exploring its negative potential when exercised by young people living under severe structural constraint. It offers an antidote to neoliberal ideas around personal responsibility, and the assumed potential for individuals to break through structures of constraint in any...
Searching for a Better Life by Sorcha Mahony is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Searching for a Better Life aloud.
Searching for a Better Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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