When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
Published 2022 · 353 pages · 72,250 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is When We Were Sisters to read?
When We Were Sisters 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: 38 out of 100
- Accessible contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Clear, emotionally direct sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Foster care, family, and belonging.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Foster system detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives on childhood.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Sisters, home carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Livesey writes with compassion.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Reconciliation achieved; costs evident.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Alternating perspectives.
How When We Were Sisters is regarded
When We Were Sisters holds a literary regard score of 52 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.