What is the author's tone in the memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker?

The book’s tonal qualities are closely linked to its perspectives. More specifically, the book’s use of language and phrasing is, as referenced above, tied to its entwined experiential and intellectual points of view. The former manifests in language that tends to be more casual and more edgy, giving much of the book tonal qualities of conversation, of rawness, and frequently of anger. The latter, the author’s more intellectual perspectives, manifest in language that tends to be more formal and more considered. This gives a significant portion of the book tonal qualities of contemplation, of careful shaping, and of restrained feeling. These contrasting qualities very often exist side by side, at times appearing within paragraphs or even sentences of each other.