How long does it take to read White Oleander?
White Oleander by Janet Fitch takes about 7 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 390 pages, about 107,250 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
Subjects: Fiction, Foster children, Mothers and daughters, Women murderers, Young women, Children of prisoners
