Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.9
Points
33.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
181849
Points per Word
0.000181
Page Count
433
Points per Page
0.076212
Description
This novel is about three Jewish families who live on both sides of California Avenue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood and chronicles their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during the late 1970s and early 1980s.