It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Southern Families by Michael Alexander
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This novel is set in Perquimmons City, North Carolina, an imaginary town of roughly 5,500 people (slightly over 40 percent black). Although it doesn't ignore the serious racial problems of the early twentieth century, their depiction isn't the novel's main purpose. Its main purpose is to describe the underlying tension between an extremely snobbish and aristocratic family the Merritts who live in one of the state's few surviving antebellum mansions and whose forebears had dominated the area around Perquimmons City until the early 1880s. Then newcomers, with more education and greater...
Southern Families by Michael Alexander is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.
This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Southern Families aloud.
Southern Families is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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