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Ugresic's piece by piece telling of her story does create an unconventional novel, in that there isn't the structure that we all learned in elementary school with the story going "up the mountain" to the climax and then coming down into a conclusion. Rather her story is told in a sort of zig zag pattern that sometimes comes back around and sometimes not so much. I enjoy her quips about her friends/acquaintances or her daily exploits because in the short bursts she is telling them Ugresic is able to offer much more detail or observations of personal importance than she would be able to effectively in a story with the conventional flow.