Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.5
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
70829
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
265
Points per Page
0.045283
Description
Berkeley literature student Joseph--born of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father--discovers a remarkable family history that opens with the al-Raqb family having served for a millennium as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo.