Point of View

The short stories collected in The Rock Eaters are written from a range of different points of view. "Thoughts and Prayers," "The Stones of Sorrow Lake," "Yaiza," "The Great Escape," "The Kite Maker," "The Touches," "The Man I Could Be," "Catarina," "The Dreamers," and "We Work in Miraculous Cages," are all written from the first person point of view. "The Whitest Girl," "The Drownings," "What We Lost," "The Rock Eaters," and "The Radioactives" are written from first person plural points of view, each narrator assuming the voice of a collective group or community. In "What We Lost," the narrator veers between first person plural and singular pronouns, speaking both as an individual, and on behalf of themselves and their fellow friends and citizens. "True Love Game" is the only story in the collection written from the third person point of view.

The stories that are...