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How long does it take to read Untwine?

Edwidge Danticat

Untwine by Edwidge Danticat takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2015. 312 pages, about 85,800 words. Written for children.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 35 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.

Subjects: Grief, Sisters, Traffic accidents, Twins, Haitian American families, Juvenile fiction

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