Point of View

The novel is narrated by the protagonist, Goldie. She alternates between chapters set in the past and present. Goldie makes for an interesting narrator because she describes herself as being completely without personal goals, desires, dreams, or a personality.

During the school year, she describes herself as a ghost: “For most of my life, I was a shadow in Roxwood. Someone who was there, but barely, counting down the days until I could visit Ava and Imogen, or head back to Alpine Lake” (42). And, while she is at Camp Alpine Lake, she says that her favorite part of being a camper is getting rid of her own individual personality and self: “Camp was about discarding the loneliness and leaning into the feeling of having your whole body, your whole personality up for grabs, and if you gave yourself over to camp completely, you would never...