As a translated work I cut The Sand Child some slack when it comes to the narrative flow of the book. The imagery and prose of The Sand Child is so magically. It weaves a great narrative in my mind around the book. The dynamics of the gender are well displayed here in The Sand Child, from the main character and her struggle with navigating who she is, to the unnamed sisters she has under her. There are a lot of pronoun shifts in the narrative as the main character navigates their way through their life, switching back and forth. The technique of telling the story by using other narrators did have me confused on whose feelings were being displayed and what was going on occasionally. This is the first time (I believe) where I've had multiple narrators for only one person's narrative. The story drew me in the first 50 pages but along the way, the intensity of the story started to wane, and the plot started to drag. It picked it back up towards the end but not enough as I would have liked.