Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Published 2023 · 272 pages · 68,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War Fiction
How hard is Black Butterflies to read?
Black Butterflies scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 40 out of 100
- Afrikaans and Dutch vocabulary in translation.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short, precise sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Trauma and survival.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Efficiently conveyed.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Shows through fragments.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The butterflies carry symbolic weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Joubert writes with compassion.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Survival but not healing.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Fragmentary structure.
How Black Butterflies is regarded
Black Butterflies holds a literary regard score of 56 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.