How long does it take to read The Houseguest and Other Stories?
Amparo Dávila, Santiago Caruso, Matthew Gleeson, Audrey Harris
The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, Santiago Caruso, Matthew Gleeson, Audrey Harris takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 200 pages, about 55,000 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest--Dávila's debut collection in English--you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
Subjects: Mexican Short stories, Short stories, mexican
