comment on structure

Adrift is broken up into fourteen chapters, beginning with a short introduction and concluding with an epilogue. Chapters are named rather than numbered, identified thematically based on the content of the section. Occasionally a date is inserted to establish the passage of time, but dates do not separate sections. They are instead placed to one side, never bisecting the text. This gives the impression of one day melting into another, as events cannot be cleanly ascribed to one day as opposed to another.