It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzalez Pena
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The lyrical story of a Mexican family torn apart by the fragility and madness of one of its members. Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a colonial past, spanning three generations, and shuttling from Mexico City to Oaxaca to the North Fork of Long Island to Veracruz, The Sad Passions is the lyrical story of a middle-class Mexican family torn apart by the undiagnosed mental illness of Claudia, a lost child of the 1960s and the mother of four...
The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzalez Pena is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read The Sad Passions aloud.
The Sad Passions is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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