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How long does it take to read Enemy Women?

A Novel

Paulette Jiles

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles takes about 5 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 53 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2002. 321 pages, about 88,275 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 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 53 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 41 minutes

The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

E-book extra: Reading group guide.The acclaimed Civil War saga about a young woman arrested on charges of "enemy collaboration," the Union major who loves and frees her, and her quest for a home that may have ... vanished.From critically acclaimed, award-winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty -- an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nation's bitter agony.

Subjects: War stories, Fiction, Young women, History, Love stories, Missouri, fiction

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