About This Book
What the Thunder Said is the 2008 winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. In the Dust Bowl of 1930s Oklahoma, a family comes apart, as sisters Mackie and Etta Spoon keep secrets from their father, and from each other. Etta, the dangerously impulsive favorite of her father, longs...
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8h 30m
slow reader
180 WPM
6h 7m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 22m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 91,850 words📅 13 days at 30 min/day
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6 h 48 min
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