comment on style

The text is straightforward and conversational for the most part. Jess narrates the way someone without a college education would - short, simple words, sometimes peppered with what movie reviewers call "strong language." She is articulate when describing her loneliness and isolation from the general public and when describing her dreams and trance states (i.e., when she "returns" to the desert when being raped in the police station). To author Feinberg, this story is so important that it must not be obscured with fancy language.