Point of View

The novel is narrated in first-person past in Maren’s point of view. The novel often goes very deep into Maren’s psyche, such as when she realizes she feels strangely jealous about Lee eating girls because she is starting to fall for him: “For a while we sat in silence, and I tried to pick apart this feeling I was having. How could I be jealous of Loathsome Lauren the Lucky Toss girl? I wasn’t jealous. Not really. I just wanted Lee’s attention—if not forever, then at least for the seven and a half minutes it would take him to polish me off” (173). This is to be expected in first person, but there is some distance created between Maren's psyche and the reader that feels more like third-person.

The novel allows space between some of the gorier activities that Maren engages...