How long does it take to read We Are Water?
We Are Water by Wally Lamb takes about 10 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 564 pages, about 155,100 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Subjects: Race relations, Women artists, Parent and adult child, Divorce, Fiction, Lesbians
