Point of View

The novel is written in first-person from the limited perspective of Mim, a young girl who is struggling to figure out her place, considering that her world has taken a dramatic turn. Her parents divorced and Mim's mother, Eve, is no longer in contact. Mim's father has remarried and Mim suspects her stepmother, Kathy, is withholding correspondence with Eve. Mim is also struggling with a diagnosis that labels her with a mental illness, but she does not accept either the diagnosis or the medicine that is supposed to treat it. The limited perspective means Mim does not know all the details about the adults in her life, especially that her mother is in a rehab facility struggling with a mental illness of her own.

Mim is intellectual and mature in some ways, but immature in others. She images her life as series of plays, scenes...