Point of View

Monstro is narrated in the first-person perspective from some unknown amount of time after the events that occurred when he was 19. He primarily tells his own story of following his sick mother to the Dominican Republic and his time hanging out with Alex and Mysty, but also serves as an omniscient consciousness in narrating the bizarre storyline simultaneously unfolding in Haiti. There is no explanation for how the narrator knows as much as he does about the doctors and the patients in the Haitian camp, about the infection and related experiments in such detail as to know how the doctors felt in response to their findings.

Yet, he reports without claiming conjecture or speculation, which the earnest, honest narrator would otherwise admit to doing, as he admits multiple times to his own foolishness and lack of compassion regarding Mysty, his mother, and the suffering Haitian...