Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57737
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.043269
Description
Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa, has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid, but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.