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How long does it take to read People in Trouble?

Sarah Schulman

People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman takes about 4 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 11 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 228 pages, about 62,700 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 58 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 11 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 37 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Kate, an artist and a married woman who loves her husband, discovers the pleasures of cross-dressing and a lesbian affair. Peter confronts a world that is beginning to look disconcertingly gay -- both at home, where Kate is behaving oddly, and on the streets of Manhattan. Molly, who works as a ticket taker in a sleazy revival house, juggles her lovers, watches her friends die of AIDS and tries to keep her heart in one piece. All of their lives are altered by the appearance of Justice, an underground organization of gay guerrilla activists determined to save their own lives. This Book is a Triumphant political fantasy and a passionate investigation of how we can fail each other when our inability to take action gets the better of our ihumanity; it is the story of an unusual love triangle and what happens to love and anger when they are transformed by activism.

Subjects: Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, LGBTQ novels, Homosexuality, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Fiction

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