comment on structure

Although the novel is divided into a series of distinct sections, the author's overarching narrative form defies conventional novelistic structures. Instead of organizing the novel into neat, numerical or titled chapters, the author divides Crossroads into a network of unlabeled, unnumbered narrative parcels. Each new parcel marks a shift behind a new character's point of view. The author does not expressly identify the character whose lens the narrator is assuming, but rather leaves it up to his reader to infer whose perspective she is following.