How long does it take to read The Salt Roads?
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson takes about 7 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 13 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 394 pages, about 108,350 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a search to discover herself and inhabits the minds of three women throughout history.
Subjects: Goddesses, Prostitutes, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Time travel, Spirit possession