How long does it take to read The City We Became?
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin takes about 8 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Great Cities
Previous: The City Born Great Next: The World We Make
About 8 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2020. 437 pages, about 120,175 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. And they're not the only ones.
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, magical realism, Fiction, fantasy, urban, Fiction, Mythology
