Point of View

We Know You Remember is written from the third person point of view. Throughout the novel, this third person narrator shifts between various characters’ vantage points. For example, at the start of the novel, the narrator maintains close psychic contact with Olof Hagström. The reader, therefore, experiences her entrance into the narrative world by way of Olof’s consciousness. Indeed, the novel begins with the lines: “There it was, the looming shadow of the mountains. A petrol station flashed by out of the corner of his eye, followed by yet more trees . . . There was something about the scents. The flowers along the edge of the ditch. The dew in the grass and the haze in the evening air, the buttercups and fireweed and cow parsley . . . Or maybe it was timothy grass, what did he know. He just recognized the smell” (1). In these opening passages...