comment on language / style

The language of this novel is simple English. The novel is written in the slang and easy grammar that a person might use to speak in the sixties, seventies, and eighties, the time period in which the novel is set. The novel is written largely in internal dialogue, exposition, and some external dialogue. As the novel progresses, it appears to the reader that the narrators are setting their story to paper for some unknown reason, perhaps to help each of them better understand Rose's actions. For this reason, the language tends to be a little more formal than each of these characters might use in everyday speech, but still casual enough to include slang common to the time period in which the novel is written.