comment on structure

Stray City is divided into three parts, with 43 chapters and 413 pages. The chapters are titled. Part 1 is set during 1998 and 1999. Part two takes place in 1999. Part 3 takes place in 2009. The novel focuses on the three years listed and does not cover the ten-year gap between when part 2 ends and part 3 begins. Some details about that time are given in the third-person narrative of part 3, where the timeline is not strictly linear.