Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of A House Is a Body: Stories is 5th and 6th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 3 |
SMOG Index | Grade 6 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 5 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of A House Is a Body: Stories is 60,450 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 2 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 43 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 15 mins.
A House Is a Body: Stories - 60,450 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 6 hrs 43 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 2 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 15 mins |
for A House Is a Body: Stories
A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from The Millions * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Electric Literature “Swamy’s A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously. Yet, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a short story collection.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In “Earthly Pleasures,” a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India’s biggest celebrities, and desire and ego are laid bare. In “A Simple Composition,” a husband’s professional crisis leads to his wife’s discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy. And in the title story, an exhausted mother watches, hypnotized by fear, as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured, provocative and probing, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.A House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction, from a writer at the start of a stellar career.