What is the author's style in the novel, All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running?

On its surface, All the Water I've Seen is Running, follows a linear plot trajectory. The novel begins with Daniel's discovery that Aubrey has died in a car accident, and traces Daniel's journey back to Palm Coast and his time with friends as he searches for reconciliation and healing. However, the author disrupts this otherwise simple plot structure with frequent temporal distortions. Indeed, the narrative rarely remains fixed in the narrative present for long, as Daniel spends the majority of the novel "reliving the past" (10). Throughout his "homeward journey," everything that Daniel sees, every conversation he has, and every old haunt he visits, tugs him further into memory (222). These reflections are formally entangled with Daniel's fragmented description of the narrative action in the present. In this way, the author enacts Daniel's relationship with the past on the page.