Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel is 5th and 6th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 5 |
SMOG Index | Grade 7 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 6 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 5 |
The estimated word count of The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel is 79,050 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 17 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 47 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 56 mins.
The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel - 79,050 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 47 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 17 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 56 mins |
for The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel
A Recommended Book From:USA Today * The Chicago Tribune * Book Riot * Refinery 29 * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Publishers Weekly * Baltimore Outloud * Omnivoracious * Lambda Literary * Goodreads * Lit Hub * The MillionsFrom award-winning author Lysley Tenorio, comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls homeExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight.But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago, on Excel’s tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago,” she told him, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life.Casting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a leap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider?Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other.