Point of View

The point of view of the novel varies throughout. At first, it seems as if the novel is going to be written in a simple omniscient narration with a third-person present narrator who skips around inside the heads of all five women attending therapy in the YMCA: “Bernice had read the email, then deleted it. Gretel had marked it as ‘spam.’ Ruby had read half of it, then marked it as ‘unread,’ where it joined over 5,000 other ‘unread’ emails. Ashlee didn’t even see it because she was trying to avoid the internet. Raina read the message, then left it in her inbox, where it fell lower and lower in the queue until it disappeared from the first page entirely. By then, another email had arrived, and after that came another, and another” (4). The omniscient narrator is able to see into all the women’s...