Point of View

Gold Fame Citrus uses a third-person point of view. It is an omniscient narrative voice that closely follows Luz throughout the story, describing her actions, quoting her dialogue, and revealing her thoughts and feelings. She is the novel’s main character, and this is evidenced by the predominant focus on her, and the length that the narrator spends devoted to her.

There are various exceptions to this focus on Luz. Book 1 stays with Luz for completely. Meanwhile, Book 2 opens with a chapter told from a zoomed-out point of view, giving a bird’s eye perspective of the American Southwest, of the Amargosa, of the conservation efforts that have failed, of the civilization that the sand has swallowed, and of the witnesses who have felt called to the dunes. Levi is given a chapter devoted to his backstory, in which the narrative point of view is...