How Long to Read What Returns to Us

How Long Does it Take to Read What Returns to Us?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 30 minutes to read What Returns to Us by Carol Bergman

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

Description

From fiction writer and journalist Carol Bergman comes a new novel: WHAT RETURNS TO US, set in New York in 1945 just before the Japanese surrender. Soldiers, sailors and airmen are returning home after four long years in Europe or Asia. America is not the same and they are not the same either. May Gilbert, promoted from secretary to reporter in 1941 when all the able-bodied men were drafted, is witness to these transformations and writes about them with curiosity and compassion. She loves the city, she loves her job, and she doesn't want it interrupted again by sordid love affairs or a wounded brother. Like so many others, he suffers from shell shock and has to be hospitalized. May searches for the father that abandoned them when they were children and begins her own quest for a more meaningful career. Shifted to the foreign desk on the eve of the atomic blast in Hiroshima, she finds herself the lone dissenter in the news room: the blast may end the war but at what cost? And what are the implications for the future?In the wake of the bomb—a weapon of mass destruction—May leaves her family and personal struggles behind and travels to Hiroshima with John Hersey to gather stories from survivors.

How long is What Returns to Us?

What Returns to Us by Carol Bergman is 150 pages long, and a total of 37,500 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What Returns to Us Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read What Returns to Us aloud.

What Reading Level is What Returns to Us?

What Returns to Us is suitable for students ages 10 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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