Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Published 2024
How hard is Coexistence: Stories to read?
Coexistence: Stories scores 56 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: 52 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary with Cree terms.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear, precise sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete lives carrying arguments about kinship and land.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate per story.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Varied narrators, several withholding.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- The rez and the body recur figuratively.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Steady irony about settler expectations.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- Stories end unresolved.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- A collection with a shared world.
How Coexistence: Stories is regarded
Coexistence: Stories holds a literary regard score of 36 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.