Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.6
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69943
Points per Word
0.000172
Description
Pip is hired as a farm hand, but he is black and the farmer is white. And this is 1960s America, where race defines you. Hypnotist Jack has left Ireland dreaming of a new life in the American South. His and Pip's lives become inextricably linked.