Point of View

This novel is told from a split point of view and a split timeline. Chapters alternate between 1915, when Even was a spy in World War I, and 1947, just after the end of World War II, when Charlie is looking for her cousin, Rose. Charlie’s sections of narration are told from her first-person point of view. The first sentence reveals that Charlie is the narrator and will be telling the story from her point of view because she refers to herself as “I”: “The first person I met in England was a hallucination” (3). This first person point of view allows the reader to feel close to Charlie, as if she is telling her story directly to the reader. The reader knows Charlie’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions as Charlie describes what happens to her and why she acts as she does. The reader, however, is...