Arundhati Roy has a very interesting style of writing that is both intriguing but also has a sense of reality. She uses time very lightly in TGST, by skipping around the characters' lives making it hard to know where you are in the novel. Roy often uses elements of nature to correspond with the story along with elemental symbols like the moth or the river that runs through Ayemenem, and how it destroys and brings together the story at more times that one.