It takes the average reader 3 hours to read The Other Side/El Otro Lado by Julia Alvarez
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The New York Times Book Review has praised Alvarez’s fiction as “powerful...beautifully captures the experience of the new immigrant’s doorway where a memory is not yet the past and the future is still a dream.” These same qualities characterize her poetry—from the “Making Up the Past” poems, which explore a life of exile as lived by a young girl, to “The Joe Poems,” a series of beautifully sensual and funny love poems that celebrate a middle-aged romance. The collection culminates in the poem of the title: the twenty-one-part epic about the poet’s return to her native Dominican Republic, and...
The Other Side/El Otro Lado by Julia Alvarez is 176 pages long, and a total of 45,056 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 6 minutes to read The Other Side/El Otro Lado aloud.
The Other Side/El Otro Lado is suitable for students ages 10 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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