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How long does it take to read This Is How You Lose Her?

Junot Díaz

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz 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 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.

Subjects: Dominican Americans, Fiction, New jersey, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Dominican americans, fiction, American Short stories

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