Point of View

Each of the stories in the collection employ a tight, limited point of view. Each story is filtered through a single character’s lens: either through third-person close narration, as in “The Feminist” and “PICS” and “Ahegao”, or through first-person narration in the form of internet posts, as in “Our Dope Future”, and “Main Character”. This stylistic choice is employed to highlight the distortions and blind spots that shape each protagonist’s understanding of themselves and others. The result is a series of stories in which the perspectives of outsiders are always present (sometimes offered directly, sometimes implied) but consistently resisted, deflected, or misread.

In “The Feminist”, the close third-person narration is fully immersed in the protagonist’s deluded self-image. His friends’ patience erodes and one even confronts him directly about his entitlement, but the narrator’s perspective twists these interactions into evidence of his...