How long does it take to read What We Lose?
Zinzi Clemmons
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons takes about 4 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2017. 219 pages, about 60,225 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 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A "novel about a young African-American woman coming of age... Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor - someone, or something, to love."--
Subjects: Mothers and daughters, Loss (Psychology), African American women, Fiction, African americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction
