The product details list 896 pages for the edition shown.
The description follows a boy born in southern Appalachia who, in his own voice, survives foster care, child labor, addiction, troubled loves, and crushing losses while reckoning with his place in a struggling rural community.
One listing specifies a suggested age of "22 Years and Up," while the synopsis notes a teenage protagonist and addresses mature topics such as foster care and addiction.
Page counts shown in the results range from about 400 pages up to 896 pages.
The listings include strong praise emphasizing the novel's distinctive narrative voice and emotional impact, calling it absorbing, heartrending, and likening its narrator to classic youthful storytellers; some descriptions also call it a modern epic.
