Point of View

The Storm We Made is written from the third person point of view. The first 23 chapters of the novel are organized according to four members of the Alcantara family’s points of view. In the chapters titled with Cecily’s name, the third person narration is limited to Cecily’s perspective, while the chapters titled with Abel’s, Jujube’s, and Jasmin’s names are limited to Cecily’s three children’s respective perspectives. The only exception to these point of view patterns are the final two chapters. In Chapter 24, the third person narrator shifts between all four Alcantara family members’ perspectives over the course of the same chapter. In Chapter 25, the narrator assumes an omniscient stance, and renders the world from a more unbiased, removed stance.

These point of view choices enact the novel’s overarching themes regarding wartime circumstances, loss and grief, and...