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How long does it take to read An Unkindness of Ghosts?

Rivers Solomon, Francis Guévremont

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, Francis Guévremont takes about 6 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 14 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2017. 340 pages, about 93,500 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 23 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 54 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects: Equality, Resistance to Government, Fiction, Racism, Interplanetary voyages, Slavery

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