Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
Published 2002 · 321 pages · 80,250 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Fantasy, Historical Fiction
How hard is Sister Noon to read?
Sister Noon scores 55 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: 55 out of 100
- Victorian San Francisco.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Fowler's period style.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Women's lives, secrets.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Historical detail.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Noon, sisterhood.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Historical distance.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Mysteries resolved.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Multiple viewpoints.
How Sister Noon is regarded
Sister Noon 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.