Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Little Gods: A Novel is 7th and 8th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 5 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Little Gods: A Novel is 84,010 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 37 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 21 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 7 mins.
Little Gods: A Novel - 84,010 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 9 hrs 21 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 37 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 7 mins |
for Little Gods: A Novel
“Compellingly complex…Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book ReviewCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement.A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self.