Point of View

Love and Saffron is told in the first-person point of view and written primarily in an epistolary style. With the exception of Part Two, which is told in the traditional third-person point-of-view, the narrative is shared through letters between Joan and Imogen. This means that everything is told in the reflective past tense as both of these women are describing events that have already happened or pondering what has yet to come. For example, the very first letter written by Joan focuses on how she came to love Imogen's column and why she chose to send Saffron as a gift. However, there are also examples of the women writing about things that are happening at the exact moment that they penned the letter, though this is much rarer. Imogen's first letter, for example, is written in the middle of Hurricane Freida, and she weaves in...