Same Sun Here by Silas House
Published 2012 · 81,675 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Same Sun Here to read?
Same Sun Here scores 33 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: 28 out of 100
- Two children's vocabularies, one Indian and one Appalachian.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Short letters in plain language.
- Abstraction: 32 out of 100
- Concrete, with light social framing.
- Information density: 38 out of 100
- Two worlds to establish.
- Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
- Two young letter-writers, each partial.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- The mountain and the apartment carry gentle weight.
- Ironic distance: 28 out of 100
- Little irony; the book is sincere.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Resolved warmly.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- An epistolary exchange throughout.
How Same Sun Here is regarded
Same Sun Here holds a literary regard score of 32 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.