Brian Doyle, author of Mink River, is clearly a proponent of the idea that life is messy and chaotic, and he demonstrates this in his work. He does so by ignoring traditional organizational laws. For example, at the end of Part II, Doyle jumps from character to character, encompassing every single one in the town of Neawanaka, all within a page and a half. He speaks of the way the rain falls on everyone in the town, “On Grace on her knees in the mud by her father’s grave in the southeast corner of the field where he thought he would die, but he didn’t. On Nicholas relentlessly lifting weights up down more weight up down more weight up down updown updownupdownup” (Doyle 142). Traditionally, an author would spend a large chunk of time on one