Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
81756
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
339
Points per Page
0.035398
Description
The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife, Laura, becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns in 1946 from World War II to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta.