How many pages is American Hagwon?

656 pages, which is about 197,000 words and 13 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

Is American Hagwon worth reading?

Only 6 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 656 pages and about 13 hrs of your time, or 8 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is the American Hagwon audiobook?

About 22 hrs, estimated from the 197,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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American Hagwon

Name: American Hagwon
Author: Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee

13 hrsto read

—not scored

At your speed≈ 13 hrs

Pages656

Audiobook≈ 22 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

656 pages works out to roughly 197,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 13 hrs — a week or more of evenings.

Only 6 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

No Worth-it score yet. Too new to score — fewer than 10 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far. How the score works →

How long does it take to read American Hagwon?

American Hagwon is 656 pages, or roughly 197,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for American Hagwon at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	18½ hrs
Average	250	13 hrs
Fast	400	8 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 22 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read American Hagwon?: About 13 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. American Hagwon runs 656 pages, roughly 197,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 18½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 8 hrs.
How many pages is American Hagwon?: 656 pages, which is about 197,000 words and 13 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is American Hagwon worth reading?: Only 6 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 656 pages and about 13 hrs of your time, or 8 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the American Hagwon audiobook?: About 22 hrs, estimated from the 197,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in…

Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo, DH, and Mido—find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security. In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice—for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers—is a kind of prayer.