Point of View

The author writes the novel from a range of points of view, including the first, second, and third person. Initially, in "The Dream of the Blue Fox," the third person narrator follows the blue fox most closely. This attention shifts in the second chapter, "The Three," to Grayson, Moss, and Chen's perspectives. The chapters "Botch Behemoth," "Leviathan," and "Corpse" move closest to Botch, Behemoth, and Leviathan's points of view, illustrating their movements from community to solitude, from young embryo life, to their later monstrous forms. In "Can't Remember," "The Body," "The Dark Bird," and "Can't Forget," the first, second, and third person narrator's move around and inside Charlie X's consciousness, these shifts illustrating Charlie X's unstable mental space, his inability to exist in one form or to hold onto even one version of his life. "The Body" also features the third person narrator moving inside...