comment on structure

The Quiet Room is structured much like an ordinary novel. It is around 270 pages and the text is divided into five parts, with twenty-seven chapters spread across those five parts. Each part of the book tells the story of a different period of Lori's experience with her disorder. Part I, "I Hear Something You Can't Hear" introduces the reader to Laurie, discusses her childhood and teenage years and introduces the Voices when Laurie is at summer camp. It also takes the reader through Lori's time in college at Tufts and her increasing struggle to keep the Voices a secret.