How long does it take to read Kindred?
A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings, María Barbado Mujica
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings, María Barbado Mujica takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The book is the first-person account of a young African-American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself being shunted in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. (This is the comic adaptation of the original novel written by Olivia E. Bulter)
Subjects: Slaves, Time travel, Comic books, strips, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Slaves, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
