What is the author's perspective in the nonfiction book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America?

Since many of the book’s essays are about Kiese Laymon’s life, much of the essays are told through his perspective. There are instances in which this is not so, but they usually involve hypothetical scenarios in which Laymon could not have been preset (like the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in “Reasonable Doubt and the Lost Presidential Debate of 2012”) or letters (“Echo: Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon”). Laymon’s first person perspective is also not seen in essays that discuss historical events (“Eulogy for Three Black Boys Who Lived”) and when he explicitly discusses the second-person perspective in “You Are the Second Person.