How Long to Read The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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

Description

"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity, and much of what native-daughter Pierson loves about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New Yorkuntil stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs. A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.

How long is The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home?

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home by Melissa Holbrook Pierson is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home aloud.

What Reading Level is The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home?

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home 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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