It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A mesmerizing debut novel that weaves history and mythology around a community of Chinese immigrants and the ghosts that haunt them Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unknown to its residents, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor. As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, their frightening power is finally revealed. A lyrical imagining of what happens when a Chinese...
Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Water Ghosts aloud.
Water Ghosts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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