Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63689
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
278
Points per Page
0.032374
Description
As the partition of India nears in 1947 bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help him get to Oxford.