How Long to Read Still Water Bending

How Long Does it Take to Read Still Water Bending?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Still Water Bending by Wendy Mitman Clarke

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

Description

In the river-born community of Ophelia, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay, there are three religions: The Water, The Family, and The Land. This trinity has bound and sustained a community of proud, independent people for generations. But in the face of dwindling fisheries, falling prices for the catch, and land speculation by outsiders, a way of life is dying. Jines Arley Evans, a third generation waterman, clings to what is left of his past. His wife and young son are long dead, his estranged daughter far away. The family land and its silent house, the workboat called Jenny Rae after his wife, and the rhythms, mysteries, and seasons of the water are all that remain of a life that long ago lost any real purpose. His daughter, Lily Rae Evans, fled her father, the family home, and Ophelia fourteen years ago. Bitterly angry at Jines for his emotional abandonment, Lily Rae lives in Portland, Maine, where she works as a journalist. Like her father, disaffection and silence are her allies; the past remains a vault in which any kind of future is locked. When Jines suffers a stroke while fishing, the trajectories of their isolation from each other and from the rest of the world abruptly change. As Jines¿s only surviving family member, Lily Rae is called home. Thrown together, they must come to terms with their isolation from each other and the rest of the world. They begin to find a common language in an unlikely place¿in a shed where Jines, now land-bound and needing Lily¿s help, begins to build a traditional deadrise skiff. As Jines¿s powerful life slowly recedes and contracts, Lily¿s expands as she becomes reacquainted with the place and people she had left behind, including Jamie Cockrell, her best childhood friend. Now a divorced father of a beautiful young daughter, he¿s yearning for what few other young men of Ophelia still want¿a chance to run his own boat and work on the water. Lily is falling in love, not only with Jamie and his daughter but with her home.

How long is Still Water Bending?

Still Water Bending by Wendy Mitman Clarke is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Still Water Bending Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Still Water Bending aloud.

What Reading Level is Still Water Bending?

Still Water Bending is suitable for students ages 12 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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