How long does it take to read When Heaven and Earth Changed Places?
Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts takes about 6 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 373 pages, about 102,575 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Vietnamese girl caught between the North the South and the Americans. Later in life she returns to Vietnam to find her family and continuing distrust and fear. The book goes back and forth between the war years and her return as an American. A great book. One of my favorites.
Subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Refugees, Vietnamese Personal narratives, Vietnamkrieg, Travel
