You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Published 2002 · 258 pages · 56,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction
How hard is You Are Not a Stranger Here to read?
You Are Not a Stranger Here scores 52 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: 45 out of 100
- Psychological and medical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Carefully crafted, varied sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Mental illness and family.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Dense with psychological detail.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Stories reveal through accumulation.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Illness, connection carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Haslett maintains compassionate distance.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Stories resist easy closure.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Story collection with recurring themes.
How You Are Not a Stranger Here is regarded
You Are Not a Stranger Here holds a literary regard score of 56 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.