Point of View

What's Mine and Yours is written from the third person point of view. Throughout the novel, this third person narrator shifts between each of the primary character's perspectives, complicating the narrative stakes and creating an expansive examination of the author's central themes. In the former half of the novel, in each new chapter, the narrator follows a new character's distinct vantage point. In Chapter 1, "October 1992," the narrator follows Ray's point of view, inhabiting his consciousness, and delivering his thoughts and feelings as overarching narrative fact. When Jade leaves the shop with Gee, for example, the narrator says Ray "felt distinctly that he was watching his whole life move away from him . . . He wanted to run after them and draw them back, keep them in the shop, where he could protect them. From what? From Wilson? Ray knew it didn't make sense" (9). Although Ray cannot rationalize...