Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.4
Points
24.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
136697
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
361
Points per Page
0.066482
Description
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist.