My Broken Language: A Memoir

Time to Read
5 hrs 35 mins

Reading Time

5 hrs 35 mins

How long to read My Broken Language: A Memoir?

The estimated word count of My Broken Language: A Memoir is 83,700 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 35 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 18 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 6 mins.

My Broken Language: A Memoir - 83,700 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 9 hrs 18 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 35 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 6 mins
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Authors
Quiara Alegría Hudes

More about My Broken Language: A Memoir

83,700 words

Word Count

for My Broken Language: A Memoir

336 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 336 pages

9 hours

Audiobook length


Description

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling idiosyncratic, love-and-trouble-filled Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother’s tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language. Weaving together Hudes’s love of books with the stories of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is an inspired exploration of home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.