Point of View

The novel is written from the third person point of view. Although this third person narrator primarily traces the protagonist Adina’s experiences throughout the novel, she also possesses an omniscient narrative vantage. This means that the narrator is not solely limited to Adina’s point of view, and has access to the world beyond Adina’s insular reality. The author establishes this facet of the narrator’s lens within the opening passages of Part 1. The section begins, “In the beginning there is Adina and her Earth mother. Adina (in utero). Listening to the advancing yeses of her mother’s heart . . . Adina advances through the birth canal; she has almost reached Earth. At this moment, Voyager 1 spacecraft launches in Florida” (3). This excerpted passage marries the micro aspects of Adina’s experience with the macro happenings of the world and universe beyond her experience. The narrator...