Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53910
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.040816
Description
After a freak accident, Douglas's twin brother is dead and his family's fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws into her painting.