Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson
Published 1999 · 324 pages · 72,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Who Do You Love to read?
Who Do You Love 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
- Contemporary American vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Clear, emotionally direct sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Love, family, and connection.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with American life detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Two perspectives across decades.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Love, distance carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Thompson writes with warmth.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Connection achieved.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Alternating perspectives over time.
How Who Do You Love is regarded
Who Do You Love 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.