Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.4
Points
30.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
172340
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
454
Points per Page
0.066079
Description
Something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976, an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home, and it rends the fabric of their family life with tragic consequences.