Point of View

The novel is written from the first person point of view of the main character Lola. Despite Lola’s noncommittal personality and detached mode of interacting with others and the world around her, the author writes the novel from her first person perspective in order to convey Lola’s desire to claim autonomy over her life and future. At the end of Chapter 1, her ex Amos tells her that what he “loved most” about Lola when they were dating was her “decisiveness” (44). He goes on to say, “I don’t mean with me. I mean you decide things and go do them. You decide to live on this shithole island, you live on this shithole island. You decide to skip work and go to a museum, you don’t hem and haw until it’s too inconvenient to go. You’re not afraid to move...