How Long to Read Where I Came from

How Long Does it Take to Read Where I Came from?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 46 minutes to read Where I Came from by Michael Matthew Casey

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

Description

This memoir of the Casey family's fate rises up from the coulees and frozen tundra of North Dakota during the Great Depression and The Dirty Thirties. Will the son, Michael, prevail over the stink and guts of slaughtering chickens, picking up cow pies for burning in the kitchen stove to can the chickens for winter food? There is child abuse from a teacher, Edna the Virgin, with a thick wooden ruler, a violent rape in a bunkhouse in the dark of night by a John Deere machinery salesman. His mother Margaret's pathos comes from having to feed and care for too many children. Her Irish Catholic husband, Matt Casey, only a generation away from the Irish potato famine, supports his family with his wages as a janitor from the local public school in Parshall. Matt will not interfere with the cycle of fate by using birth control because it is a deadly mortal sin. He is a good man, drinks not a drop, but carries the curse of St. Patrick on his forehead. Michael becomes an altar boy and serves at an infant's funeral on the bleak Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, where the mother's keening for her baby still echoes in his developing conscience. The prairie wind howls, and he hopes there is a better way. Sisyphus never had it so good.

How long is Where I Came from?

Where I Came from by Michael Matthew Casey is 219 pages long, and a total of 56,721 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Where I Came from Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 9 minutes to read Where I Came from aloud.

What Reading Level is Where I Came from?

Where I Came from 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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