It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Swinging Bridge: A Novel by Arjun Raina
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An exquisite novel that explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour. Mona remembers all too clearly the night of the big row in the house on Manahambre Road, back in her native island of Trinidad, when Da-Da, in a drunken rage, seemed ready to kill her nine-year-old brother, Kello. Grown up now, and living in Montreal, Mona wryly perceives herself as the calm at the centre of her family's storm. She yearns to make sense of her tortured family and the feeling of displacement that haunts her. And as she visits her dying brother, and reacquaints herself with her irrepressible...
The Swinging Bridge: A Novel by Arjun Raina is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read The Swinging Bridge: A Novel aloud.
The Swinging Bridge: A Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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