How long does it take to read St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves?
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new writer.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Florida, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, ghost, Fiction, fantasy, short stories
