How Long to Read The Middle of Everywhere

How Long Does it Take to Read The Middle of Everywhere?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 19 minutes to read The Middle of Everywhere by Ray Petersen

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

Description

A young man’s quest to keep his hometown’s paper mill from closing turns into an odyssey across a rural upstate New York county. One man’s affliction is another’s gift, and Kenny Hopewell’s “special gift” is a terrible memory and virtually no sense of direction. Entrusted by a family friend to deliver a plea for help that might keep his hometown mill from closing, Kenny misses his ride and sets out on foot across an isolated rural area between Lake Ontario and the Adirondacks. Along the way he meets and comes to terms with some of the denizens of this lonely landscape—the Casimir family, who survive on the outskirts of the law; Johnny Percy, a Vietnam veteran still defending his family’s abandoned homestead; and Gunnar Molshoc, a well-driller and “witcher”—refugees, like him, from the decay of rural America in the 1980s. Meanwhile, several characters at the local college are struggling to define the college’s role in the mill fight and to rescue the soul of higher education. John Harlan is an instructor attempting to write a meaningful dissertation that won’t threaten his chances at tenure; Ernest Guppy’s notion of himself as a political comic is driving his wife off the deep end; and college president Baxter McAdam and his administrative vice president are locked in a withering campaign to force each other out of power. The novel’s setting, a fictional county in upstate New York, is like a braided rug: smooth on the top, all knots underneath. Chained to a dying farm economy and losing its youth to greener pastures, it’s the sort of place where refugees from Brooklyn might live next to Amish farmers, who might live next to Italian millworkers, who might live next to a bigot whose house was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Like so many rural American communities, it has the feel of a self-inflicted wound, and as Kenny comes to understand, sometimes you have to feel pain just to know you’re still alive. Ray Petersen teaches political science and history and lives in a lake-locked village in northern New York State. He is the author of Cowkind: A Novel.

How long is The Middle of Everywhere?

The Middle of Everywhere by Ray Petersen is 314 pages long, and a total of 79,756 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Middle of Everywhere Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes to read The Middle of Everywhere aloud.

What Reading Level is The Middle of Everywhere?

The Middle of Everywhere 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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