Point of View

The author writes the novel from alternating first and third person points of view. The sections written in the first person belong to 18-year-old Pippa Fitz Amobi's perspective. Each of these sections appears in a different font, and is representative of Pip's private capstone project log entries. In each of these entries, Pip types out her increasing number of discoveries, findings, and resulting questions from her investigative work on Andie Bell's disappearance and Sal Singh's death. Through the first person logs, the author grants the reader an intimate opening into Pip's headspace. Pip's voice in these sections is casual and honest, her logs reading almost like a confessional or private diary. When Pip becomes nervous, scared, or confused, she documents it in these first person files. The reader, therefore, gains access to facets of Pip's thought process and emotional experience that she does not reveal...