Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66117
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
229
Points per Page
0.048035
Description
A mysterious voice weaves the story set in the winter of 1926, of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife.