How long does it take to read Where the Dead Sit Talking?
Brandon Hobson
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 2018. 273 pages, about 75,075 words. Written for young adults.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both"--
Subjects: Indian foster children, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Cherokee Indians, Teenagers, FICTION, Coming of Age
