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The Year of the Flood
448 pages
About This Book
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has en...
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11h 24m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 13m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 52m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 123,200 words📅 17 days at 30 min/day
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