How long does it take to read Desperate Hoodwives?
Meesha Mink, De'nesha Diamond
Desperate Hoodwives by Meesha Mink, De'nesha Diamond takes about 5 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 324 pages, about 89,100 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the efforts of four young women struggling to escape the limitations of the Atlanta housing projects, from Aisha, whose fashionable life is abruptly halted by her husband's imprisonment, to Molly, whose low self-esteem blinds her to her husband's infidelity.
Subjects: African American women, Fiction, Inner cities, Modern fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance - Contemporary
