Point of View

The novel is written from the third person point of view. This third person narration is limited to the main character Nightbitch’s vantage point. This means that although Nightbitch is not telling her story in her own words, the third person narrator has sole access to Nightbitch’s consciousness. She therefore describes the narrative world, its conflicts and stakes in the way that Nightbitch understands them. In doing so, the narrator adopts Nightbitch’s thoughts, opinions, questions, and modes of processing.

The author establishes this close connection between the narrator and Nightbitch within the opening pages of the novel. Chapter 1 begins with the line, “When she had referred to herself as Nightbitch, she meant it as a good-natured self-deprecating joke—because that’s the sort of lady she was, a good sport, able to poke fun at herself, definitely not uptight, not wound really...