How long does it take to read The Member of the Wedding?
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 184 pages, about 50,600 words. Written for young adults.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.
Subjects: Loneliness in adolescence in fiction, Teenage girls, Girls in fiction, Loneliness in adolescence, Weddings, Girls
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