Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
47392
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
267
Points per Page
0.026217
Description
The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.