How long does it take to read Mother to Mother?
Sindiwe Magona
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona takes about 3 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 213 pages, about 58,575 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer.
Subjects: South africa, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Blacks, fiction, Fiction, Americans
