What is the author's perspective in the nonfiction book, All They Will Call You?

Although the author, Tim Z. Hernandez, filters the information given in All They Will Call You, the book’s perspective remains attentive to the many different experiences and versions of the story of the plane crash. Hernandez’s perspective is self-aware in two ways. First, he inserts himself into the narrative so that the reader can understand how he himself is directing and modifying this story. He writes about his relationship with Casimira in the first person: “When I knocked on her door, she invited me in and wasted no time exchanging pleasantries… Casimira gazed at me curiously. I wasn’t sure if she was following my story, or if she was trying to discern my poor Spanish” (27). Interjections such as these remind the reader of the fact that, as the subtitle suggests, this book is only a “telling” of the Los Gatos plane crash. In fact, the information included in the book is always information that has been told, under certain circumstances sometimes including a language barrier, to the author.