How long does it take to read The Autobiography of My Mother?
Jamaica Kincaid, Dominique Peters, Carme Geronès
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, Dominique Peters, Carme Geronès takes about 4 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 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 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.
Subjects: Fiction, Women, Weibliche Schwarze, Belletristische Darstellung, Widowers, Neighborhood
