Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir is 12th and 13th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir is 47,895 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 3 hrs 12 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 20 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 47 mins.
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir - 47,895 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 5 hrs 20 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 3 hrs 12 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 1 hrs 47 mins |
for Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
An Instant New York Times BestsellerA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.