Point of View

The novel is written in third-person from several perspectives. Generally, the chapters focus on the perspective of one character at a time, from a third-person view. For example, the first chapter includes a section detailing the events leading up to Freya being at the park right up to the moment she falls off the bridge. The perspective then changes to Harun, detailing the events of his day until his arrival at the park. The perspective then changes to Nathaniel, describing how he came to be in the park. Most of the chapters also include subsections that provide the frame story, giving details about the pasts of the main characters and making the reader understand their lives in a broader sense. As a rule, each section is focused on a single character and the reader knows what that character thinks and feels in that moment. That...