How Long to Read The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

How Long Does it Take to Read The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

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

Description

From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddity—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from life’s harshest realities. But she also provokes the ire of her father Antonio: a man who demands subservience from women and whose greatest gift to his family is his absence. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and Tina must come of age side-by-side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them. Soon Stella learns that her survival is worthless without the one thing her family will deny her at any cost: her independence. In present-day Connecticut, one family member tells this heartrending story, determined to understand the persisting rift between the now-elderly Stella and Tina. A richly told debut, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna is a tale of family transgressions as ancient and twisted as the olive branch that could heal them. “Witty and deeply felt.” —Entertainment Weekly (New and Notable) “The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna achieves what no sweeping history lesson about American immigrants could: It brings to life a woman that time and history would have ignored.” —Washington Post

How long is The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna?

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna aloud.

What Reading Level is The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna?

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna 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.

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