Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Friends and Strangers: A Novel is 6th and 7th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Friends and Strangers: A Novel is 130,820 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 8 hrs 44 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 14 hrs 33 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 51 mins.
Friends and Strangers: A Novel - 130,820 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 14 hrs 33 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 8 hrs 44 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 4 hrs 51 mins |
for Friends and Strangers: A Novel
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Critics' Pick).Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. She's worried about student loan debt and what the future holds. In short order, they grow close. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth's father-in-law, the true differences between the women's lives become starkly revealed and a betrayal has devastating consequences.A masterful exploration of motherhood, power dynamics, and privilege in its many forms, Friends and Strangers reveals how a single year can shape the course of a life.