What is the author's style in the novel, They Whisper?

The novel has no clear "book chapter" divisions; rather, less intrusive breaks between sections parallel the scene divisions in a play or film script, and the reduced blank space interrupting the flow of words allows the mind to hold the novel as more nearly stream-of-consciousness in form.

Butler uses the blends of past and present to create the sense of Ira's reverie flowing forth and back in the stream of consciousness. Sentence structures vary from short grammatical statements to occasional fragments within standard dialogue, to rambling run-ons.