How long does it take to read The Yellow Birds?
Kevin Powers
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this haunting fictional account, an Iraq war veteran contemplates the lives, including his own, devasated by the random violence of war.
Subjects: Soldiers, Fiction, Friendship, Fiction, war & military, War, Literary
