Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Published 2023 · 101,200 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Family Meal to read?
Family Meal scores 52 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
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, direct sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete grief with light reflection.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Three narrators, one of them dead.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Food and the bakery carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Some distance between what each man withholds.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- The grief eases without resolving.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Three sections in three voices.
How Family Meal is regarded
Family Meal holds a literary regard score of 38 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.