How Long to Read The Potential Hazards of Hester Day

How Long Does it Take to Read The Potential Hazards of Hester Day?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read The Potential Hazards of Hester Day by Mercedes Helnwein

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

Description

Mercedes Helnwein’s debut novel is a sophisticated, savvy story that explores the un-likely friendship between two adolescent outcasts and a ten-year-old aspiring space-cowboy—and what happens when you throw them in a camper without a compass. Hester Louise Day: high school graduate, almost-wife, would-be mother, soon to be wanted for kidnapping a ten-year-old with a comb-over. Apprehensive about spending the rest of her existence in a void of nothingness in Nowheresville, Florida, where she currently lives with her painfully intrusive family, she decides to tip her life over into any kind of surrealism she can lay her hands on. Shortly after graduation and a heated fight with her mother featuring an airborne toaster, Hester's life takes a turn for the better when she notices a billboard with two wide-eyed children and the catchy phrase "All they want for Christmas is a family." What better way to drive a chainsaw through her placid existence? But when the adoption agency rejects her application to adopt a child, she realizes she must do something more drastic to derail the mediocre life threatening to spread out before her. Having found herself stuck in a camper named Arlene with Fenton Flaherty, her nemesis from the library (who, through a series of interesting events is now also Hester's husband), Jethro, Hester's ten-year-old cousin, and Duncan Clyde, a.k.a. "Jesus Freak," who is traveling along the side of the road asking passersby to sign his life-sized cross, Hester is quickly freed from anything even remotely mediocre (or normal, for that matter) about her life. Preposterously dysfunctional, side-splittingly funny, and surprisingly touching, The Potential Hazards of Hester Day is an adventure that you'll want to experience again and again.

How long is The Potential Hazards of Hester Day?

The Potential Hazards of Hester Day by Mercedes Helnwein is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Potential Hazards of Hester Day Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read The Potential Hazards of Hester Day aloud.

What Reading Level is The Potential Hazards of Hester Day?

The Potential Hazards of Hester Day 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.

Where Can I Buy The Potential Hazards of Hester Day?

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