What is the author's style in Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje?

Running in the Family is not merely structured as a memoir; instead, it features a highly postmodern form of writing. First, postmodernist literature is rarely chronological, but instead will often skip around because postmodernism as a philosophy holds that it is only perspectives that generate reality, and nothing more. There is no "real" structure of events, only the structure that derives from the meaning assigned to it by others. For the same reason, Ondaatje has written a partly fictionalized novel, but the portrait, the perspective is what is closest to the truth, not the impartial record of actual events.