About This Book
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods an...
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Reading Time Estimates
6h 33m
slow reader
180 WPM
4h 43m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 22m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 70,675 words📅 10 days at 30 min/day
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4 h 43 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
5 h 14 min
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7 h 51 min
Audio 2x
3 h 56 min
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