It takes the average reader 2 hours and 17 minutes to read The City Breaks Its Promise by Anthony Day-Grandin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The City Breaks Its Promise is about Mob Enforcer Spiro Tobick, A street kid from Hunts Point, South Bronx. Spiro and his sister Sephrina were abandoned at a crack den by their addict parents. He learned the tricks of the streets and how to make a dime into a quarter and five dollars into that night's dinner for ten people. During the day Spiro had to hustle to make ends meet, selling drugs on and the side Spiro and Sephrina were taken to Foster Care, where they were beaten, raped and broken by their Foster Father. After years of that intense torture they are free and the world never seemed the same again. Desperation clouded Spiro's judgment as he took a deadly job in order to make sure Sephrina was taken care of. Time passes and as Spiro gets himself in deeper he starts to unravel a mystery within himself meanwhile meeting a girl that is the answer to his prayers. The City Breaks its Promise is a Mainstream Fiction novella that is has an intense character study of Spiro that propels the First Person narrative to great heights. It's funny, tragic and at times beautiful.
The City Breaks Its Promise by Anthony Day-Grandin is 135 pages long, and a total of 34,425 words.
This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 8 minutes to read The City Breaks Its Promise aloud.
The City Breaks Its Promise is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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