Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
Published 2021
How hard is Femme in Public to read?
Femme in Public scores 43 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
- Plain, direct vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Short performance-poetry lines.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Personal experience raised to political statement.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Light per page.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- A direct speaking voice, close to the author.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- The body and the street carry the meaning.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Some ironic reversal of insults.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- Deliberately open-ended.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- A loose sequence of pieces.
How Femme in Public is regarded
Femme in Public holds a literary regard score of 30 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.