Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Published 2011 · 296 pages · 74,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is Blonde Roots to read?
Blonde Roots scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 45 out of 100
- Inverted slave narrative vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Clear, satirical sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Racism and history inverted.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Dense with inverted historical detail.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Satire requires interpretation.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The inversion itself is symbolic.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Evaristo maintains satirical distance.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Narrative resolves; satire persists.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Slave narrative structure inverted.
How Blonde Roots is regarded
Blonde Roots holds a literary regard score of 58 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.