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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to unders...
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Reading Time Estimates
10h 52m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 50m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 36m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 117,425 words📅 16 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
7 h 50 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
8 h 42 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
13 h 3 min
Audio 2x
6 h 31 min
That's about:
- 📅16 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇16 commutes of 30 min each




