What is the author's style in The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans?

As a mixture of personal memoir, objective reporting, and historical analysis, with elements of travelogue thrown in as well, the book is not easily classified under traditional literary forms. This type of work, which has become popular over the last two decades, is referred to under a number of different names: creative nonfiction, personal journalism, the new journalism, or literary journalism. According to Theodore A. Rees Cheney, in Writing Creative Nonfiction, this new form combines "the skill of the storyteller and the research ability of the reporter."