Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.4
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73125
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
270
Points per Page
0.048148
Description
Wealthy, white, South African woman Julie Summers, contemptuous of her privileged background, becomes involved with Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant and, when he is deported, marries him and goes to live in the primitive conditions of his home village.