Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64423
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
331
Points per Page
0.02719
Description
This book depicts the racial tension that arises over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man, in Louisiana during the 1970s.