Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
33.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
198901
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
576
Points per Page
0.057292
Description
This novel tells the story of a man without a single asset who enters a life devoid of opportunity, and whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world.