Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Published 2019 · 242 pages · 60,500 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction
How hard is Sabrina & Corina to read?
Sabrina & Corina scores 44 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
- Chicana vocabulary; Denver setting.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Clear, emotionally direct prose.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Identity, family, and place.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Denver Chicana world richly observed.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Stories reveal through accumulation.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Denver, heritage carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Fajardo-Anstine writes with compassion.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Stories end with life continuing.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linked stories of a community.
How Sabrina & Corina is regarded
Sabrina & Corina holds a literary regard score of 57 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.