Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69982
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
274
Points per Page
0.040146
Description
When Alis's parents tell her she is to marry a forty year old man, she abandons her life in the oppressive community she was born in to seek sanctuary in the city. But Alis's decision appears to have fatal consequences.