What is the narrator point of view in the memoir, There Will Be No Miracles Here?

Given that There Will Be No Miracles Here is a memoir, it follows that the point of view is first-person singular. Casey Gerald — a 30-something Ivy-League-educated, Southern, gay black man — directly narrates the story of his traumatic childhood, his undergraduate years at Yale, and his aborted political career. Aside from brief, intermittent passages in which the author uses the literary device of apostrophe to cast the reader in his place (e.g. “You would get new clothes if you didn’t like these so much. You would get new clothes if you had money” [219]), the point of view does not shift and the narrative remains in the past tense. The memoir thus follows the style of an intimate conversation between the author and his reader.