What is the author's style in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray?

"Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" by Janisse Ray is written in the first-person narrative. The story of the struggles and joys of Ray's childhood could not have been told more accurately by anyone else. Her account is told through the eyes of the child who was there to experience them. Of course, a child sees things in a different way than does an adult and there could be a measure of unintended drama added to some of the accounts for that reason.

Ray's book is written with a passion that could only come from within. She, of course, lived in the shoes of that child whose experiences she retold. Her passion for the fading pine forests is just as genuine. Her emotional connection to the forest comes out time and again in her ardent descriptions of their demise and her hopes for their revitalization.