Point of View

Each of the stories in the collection is told from the point of view of an omniscient third-person narrator. For instance, in the story “Homecoming,” “Jake loathed being bullied in his own office” (4). Jake is one of the central characters, but he is not a character of focus in the novel. The narrator jumps back and forth between scenes involving other characters such as the private meeting between Margot and Mack and Lucien’s discovery of the FBI agents breaking into Jake’s office. This point of view works well with this story because there is so much action taking place in different locations in the novel. It would be difficult to tell the story from a single person’s point of view.

The story “Strawberry Moon” is also told from the point of view of a third-person narrator. However, this narrator focuses on telling...