Reading Level
What is the reading level of The Beadworkers: Stories?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Beadworkers: Stories is 8th and 9th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
The Beadworkers: Stories
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 9 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 8 |
Reading Time
3 hrs 15 mins
How long to read The Beadworkers: Stories?
The estimated word count of The Beadworkers: Stories is 48,670 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 3 hrs 15 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 25 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 49 mins.
| The Beadworkers: Stories - 48,670 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 5 hrs 25 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 3 hrs 15 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 1 hrs 49 mins |
- Authors
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Beth Piatote
More about The Beadworkers: Stories
48,670 words
Word Count
for The Beadworkers: Stories
208 pages
Pages
5 hours and 14 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college―one French and the other Lakota―each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.