What is the author's tone in the novel, All My Rage?

Misbah’s narrative voice is engaging, despite the way it diverts us from the main, ongoing action. The italics help to suggest that we are reading a private journal, or gaining direct access to her mind. In Chapters 28, 33 and 41, the tone is even more personal and affecting, due to a switch to direct address which sees Misbah speaking to Salahudin. “Even then, you were trusting,” she says, or “I tried, my son” (188, 259). However, the nature of Misbah’s chapters seems considerably more complex by the end of the novel, when we realize that Sal has adopted her voice for his own creative writing. When the novel revisits its first line (“The sky over Lahore was purple as a gossip’s tongue”), now presenting it as the product of Sal’s imagination, we have to rethink and question what we have been reading (365). Ultimately, this twist draws attention to the power of storytelling, and the illusions which draw us into any work of fiction.