How long does it take to read The Tribes of Palos Verdes?
Joy Nicholson
The Tribes of Palos Verdes by Joy Nicholson takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 221 pages, about 60,775 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 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The friendship of a brother and sister in California, united by their love of surfing, but divided by their parents' crumbling marriage. Medina sides with the father, a doctor, Jim with the ex-model mother.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and sons, Brothers and sisters, Surfers, Domestic relations, Surfing
