River of Names

I found the excerpt, River of Names, from Dorothy Allison's Trash to be equally interesting and entertaining. It took me a while to realize exactly what was going on with the format. I'll admit that when I read through it the first time I thought it was the same story jumping around to different portions of the timeline. Now my second theory is that the excerpt is comprised of different perspectives concerning entirely different characters. My initial confusion just goes to show how strongly knit the shared themes, mood, conflicts are. It works to the author's interest that through the consistent ideas and tone she's able to keep our interest consistently captured. It makes me want to read more so that I can fill in the blanks myself.