Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.9
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73642
Points per Word
0.000177
Page Count
264
Points per Page
0.049242
Description
While walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan on a rainy morning in 1871, Martin Pemberton sees in a horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.