Point of View

The point of view of the novel is always changing, though it is centered around Chase and his story for the most part. The book adheres to a single narrative thread and tells the same, cohesive story throughout all the chapters. However, all chapters are narrated in the first-person (and present tense) by a different character. The narrating characters include: Chase, Shoshanna, Brendan, Kimberly, Aaron, Joel, and Bear. Chase narrates the most chapters with 12, Shoshanna and Brendan narrate six each, Aaron and Joel narrate two each, and Kimberly and Bear narrate one apiece.

While Chase gets the most time on the page, and is the subject of most of the other narrator’s discussions throughout their own chapters, the novel makes a pointed choice to include other narrators. This is beneficial to the story because Chase has amnesia and can only speak of things that...