Point of View

The point of view of Goddess of Yesterday is first-person. Anaxandra is the main character of the novel, and the reader perceives everything that happens through her eyes. At the very beginning of the novel, Anaxandra is six years old, leading her perspective to be a very immature and inexperienced one, but the bulk of the novel takes place when she is around 12 years old. The first sections of the novel are taken up by Anaxandra undergoing lots of personal loss and living in uncertain situations and environments. We watch as she becomes much more hardened and experienced as a result of the invasions that she sees firsthand; for instance, she watches one of her early father figures, King Nicander, stabbed in the back and killed by an invading pirate force. She has the wherewithal at that young age to take an octopus she sees...