What is the author's style in Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson, M.D.?

Gifted Hands, The Ben Carson Story is written in the first-person perspective. Ben Carson along with Cecil Murphey, writes this autobiographical story of the African-American boy from the Detroit ghetto who rises to stellar achievement as a world-class pediatric neurosurgeon. With this personal perspective, the reader is able to key in on the emotions and events that touches and impacts this gifted man's life. Ben tells of his pain and anguish when he learns that his father left them and will not return.