What is the author's style in the book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel?

The novel is divided into different dates and different pieces of correspondence between the characters in the novel. Each section ranges from one pages to 15 pages long. The sections tell the story primarily in exposition and with some dialogue. The narrator injects her own voice and thoughts throughout the book, providing her opinions and feelings of the events unfolding in the novel. The narrator switches back and forth between the past and the present.

The novel contains one main plot and several subplots. The main plot is that of human relationships—family and friendships. One subplot is the coming of age of the characters, primarily Bee Branch. Another subplot is family.