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I wonder if this was the author's intention, making things more difficult for the reader to give a sense of the difficulties faced by the characters? This is certainly something one misses out on with the audiobook, although there were some other challenges that might also have the same effect, such as the jumping back and forth in the narrative.

I totally agree