What is the author's style in the novel, What Are You Going Through?

The novel’s prose is relatively straightforward and accessible, although it functions to explore complex concepts and emotions. The novel’s approaches to exploring those dynamics is often indirect and elliptical. For example, the novel opens thusly: “I went to hear a man give a talk…I myself would not have been in the audience, I would not even have been in that town, had it not been for a coincidence. A friend of mine was being treated in a local hospital that specializes in her particular type of cancer” (3). The reader later also learns that the man giving the talk is the narrator’s ex-boyfriend. This meandering yet deliberate approach to narrative and exposition helps to enable the book’s juxtapositions of many different yet related concepts.