Caroline's Daughters | Techniques
Adams constructs her narrative as a series of vignettes interweaving scenes in the five women's lives, linked together by a consistent thread of authorial insight which reveals the secret thoughts of each. The scenes are mirror images of one another—complementary encounters which form an interwoven history. Coincidence, surprise, and the logic of moral consequences combine into an intricate, active narrative where everything is related and contextual. Possession leads to loss—Fiona's restaurant, Jill's money, Noel's seductive good looks in the Bolinas crash—while poverty is rewarded...
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