Point of View

The point of view of Where Waters Meet is predominately third-person. A vast majority of the novel is written in the form of a manuscript that one of the main characters is writing about her mother's life. As a result, much of the novel almost reads like a memoir. However, there are still exchanges of dialogue in those sections, and they ultimately feel like they are being written from the perspective of the character whose biography is being given. There are brief moments at the beginning of chapters where an epistolary form is taken in the form of emails written between the character writing the manuscript and her husband, who is editing it. The two bookending chapters set in the present day are also in the third person, and the narrator is omniscient, allowing insight into each character's mind freely.

Even though much of the...