Point of View

This novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by the main character, Lucy. The narration is written using the past tense. She is hyper-observant and critical of everyone around her and of herself and continuously offers the reader insights that are both thought-provoking and cruel. Lucy’s inner-monologue takes full control of the novel and her narrative voice shapes the novel’s tone, storyline, and overall message. Lucy is at the heart of the novel and the author allows her heroine to come through in all her existential, emotional broken, highly intelligent complexity.

The novel is light on dialogue and action and heavy on observation, inner-monologue, and philosophical meditations. Lucy is provoked into a meditative trance by the most mundane events. For example, the sight of a girl wearing shorts so short that “the very bottom of her ass cheeks protruded ever so slightly” prompts...