Point of View

The novel is written from the third person limited point of view. This means that the third person narrator is not omniscient. Rather, she inhabits the main character Alex’s psyche throughout the narrative. As a result, the ways in which the narrator describes the narrative world throughout the novel are entirely dictated by Alex’s perspective of it. The reader might refer to a passage of flashback from Chapter 1 in order to better understand this formal dynamic. The narrator shifts into Alex’s backstory, describing the night on which she first met Simon: “Alex was hitting all the correct beats, like she had been training for this exact moment, and maybe she had. She allowed Simon to order her a real drink. When she laughed, she covered her mouth with her hand, as if she were especially shy. She watched him take this gesture...