Point of View

The novel is written in first-person from the sole perspective of Dawn, a wife and mother who finds herself facing a series of situations that prompt her to take a good look at her present and past. The limited perspective means the reader sees things only from Dawn's perspective, but that is complicated by the fact that Dawn is not able or willing to see the truth in some situations. For example, she was a graduate student working on an archaeological dig in Egypt when her mother called with the news that she was dying of cancer. Dawn rushed to be at her side and then took on the responsibility for her younger brother, Kieran. She recounts the chaos of sitting at her mother's side and coping with the changes this would create in her life. When she became pregnant, she assumed the baby was...