How long does it take to read Out of Darkness?
Ashley Hope Pérez
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez takes about 7 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 405 pages, about 111,375 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Out of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937. Ashley Hope Perez has taken the explosion as her backdrop and imagined a diverse cast of characters whose broken lives are utterly captivating and tragically entangled with the school and the explosion. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. Author Biography.
Subjects: Race relations, Mexican Americans, Schools, African Americans, Explosions, Fiction
