Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
38253
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.039106
Description
This book recalls the return of Michael Ondaatje to Sri Lanka. He left when he was eleven and returned at age thirty-six. There he found the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led.