comment on style language

Ruskovich uses the concept of music as a driving force throughout the novel. Music becomes, in a way, like an extra character in the narrative. The pacing she provides through her varied sentence structures winds up mirroring music. Some sentences are long, languid and drift on much like slow and smooth woodwinds. Other chapters contain quick and frantic sections, causing the reader to read with the same speedy flurry one might feel if they were fully immersed in the reading.