It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Tempest Rising by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens they are living in foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. Though Mae is filled with...
Tempest Rising by Diane McKinney-Whetstone is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Tempest Rising aloud.
Tempest Rising is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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