What is the author's style in Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe?

Homesick proceeds in chronological order over seven chapters. The story begins in the mid 1920s with ten-year-old Jean Guttery living with her parents in Hankow, China. The story then follows various key events in Jean's young life—her friendship with Andrea Hull, the death of her baby sister, her mother's serious illness—and ends with the family fleeing China for America to escape increasing Communist violence and xenophobia.