Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.1
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63698
Points per Word
0.000173
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.052632
Description
In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, flees from a forced marriage onto a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe.