Reading Level
What is the reading level of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is 6th and 7th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 7 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
4 hrs 31 mins
How long to read A Mind Spread Out on the Ground?
The estimated word count of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is 67,580 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 31 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 31 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 31 mins.
| A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - 67,580 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 7 hrs 31 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 31 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 31 mins |
- Authors
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Alicia Elliott
More about A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
67,580 words
Word Count
for A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
7 hours and 16 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from an award-winning Haudenosaunee writerThe Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political.A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.