The structure of this book is pretty spare and it's every chapter will be a few weeks a few months later. I thought the time thing was neat because it felt like almost always felt like just the right amount of time for situations to have changed, she says. The only chapter that feels a bit like on the nose about it is when Connell goes into therapy but most of the other ones feel like oh we're in a situation in present tense and then the character is like and I'm thinking about this other thing and I can talk about it.