Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine audiobook runs 5.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Emily Bernard (about 3.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 5.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.8 hours, it is shorter than 78% of the 5,212 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
620 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine is an audiobook by Emily Bernard: a 5.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Bernard, released January 29, 2019, on the Memoirs and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Bernard
- Released
- January 29, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781984839879
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine audiobook?
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine runs 5.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.9 hours.
Is the Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine audiobook free?
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Who narrates Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine?
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine is narrated by Emily Bernard.