Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.4
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59668
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
231
Points per Page
0.04329
Description
Eighty-two-year-old Marina, preparing for her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle, finds it hard to hold onto memories in the present, retreating often to the 1940s, living in the basement of the Hermitage Museum during the German siege of Leningrad.