Point of View

The novel is narrated by an omniscient narrator in the third-person past. In addition to the traditional narration, a series of epistolary documents are included that add weight to the novel as a whole. The perspective of the novel allows it to encompass a wide scope. In the first chapter alone, half a dozen characters are introduced as the narrator zooms around New York City showing all the different women involved in small acts of witchcraft in their daily lives. The women are nameless in the first chapter, but later in the novel we connect the nameless prostitute with a rabbit’s foot she collected from a client to Jenny, the young woman who is murdered by Reverend Townsend in an alley, and we connect Lena McLeod, who is also tortured by Reverend Townsend, with the young and nameless woman having visions of people drowning...