How Long to Read What's in a Name

How Long Does it Take to Read What's in a Name?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read What's in a Name by Garie McIntosh

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

Description

What’s in a Name, Garie McIntosh’s jaw-dropping first novel, is about the power of secrets, the people who wield such sometimes inexpressible power and the women haunted by those secrets. The novel takes the reader on a searing journey that intimately portrays the lives of seven women. A must-read, it will change the way we view secrets, what we think of them and ultimately, how we address them, even the women who keep them. Story summary The day turns freezing and dark, a heinous crime occurs and abandonment ensues. It is the last day of school for a twelve-year-old girl named Christine in 1994 in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-one years later, she finally realizes that her silence about the meaning of her other name, which her mother gave to her on her death bed, threatens her survival. She has formed a compromise through her new name, Lena, to survive the events of her childhood. Accompanied by her husband, she takes the trip of her life to a paradisaical landscape, Jamaica, where she meets a woman who knows about compromising. Christine discovers that both a woman's compromise and her retraction of that compromise can be not only courageous but also dazzlingly infelicitous. That infelicity is found in the name of a seventy-four-year-old Jamaican woman who now calls herself Dell-Dell. Justification In Canada and Jamaica, the silent women of What’s in a Name can no longer remain so. In this epic tale that details each woman’s shocking justification for her own silence, be mesmerized when one of them unbridles “herself with her secret for some breaking news of her own.” Mystery Each woman’s name is like the cover art that wraps to the back of the book, in that what each is rooted in could be “the effect of breeze having manipulated leaves into form; leaves having manipulated light with equal savvy.” The unspeakable The women have spoken, and they must be heard. But for one of them, Dell-Dell, speaking by itself is not enough, nor is her name, so she commits an unspeakable act to solidify her new name. She reminds us that every woman knows her own sorrows.

How long is What's in a Name?

What's in a Name by Garie McIntosh is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What's in a Name Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read What's in a Name aloud.

What Reading Level is What's in a Name?

What's in a Name 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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Where Can I Buy What's in a Name?

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