Point of View

This novel is told from the first person point of view of Joe, a psychopathic man who becomes obsessed with a woman whom he meets in the bookstore where he works. Because Joe is a psychopath, he is a very unreliable narrator. He has a habit of lying to Beck and to others to make himself appear more sophisticated. For instance, when Beck suggests that she met Joe at a bar where he was a bartender, Joe lies and tells her that he works in a bar as well as the bookstore. Because Joe has such a habit of lying, the reader would suspect that he also lies as he narrates his story.

Joe is able to tell the story only from his own point of view. He does not have much input from other characters. Joe often makes incorrect suppositions about why other characters...