Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan
Published 2001 · 175 pages · 43,750 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction
How hard is Singing My Sister Down to read?
Singing My Sister Down scores 54 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: 50 out of 100
- Simple vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Lanagan's clear prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Ritual, death, community.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Sparse detail.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Child narrator, ritual.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- Tar, singing, descent.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Child's acceptance.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Ritual completes.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Short story.
How Singing My Sister Down is regarded
Singing My Sister Down holds a literary regard score of 58 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.