What prose style is seen in the novel Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers?

This book’s language is poetic and sentimental. As a war veteran himself, the author is able to give a raw account of the experience he’s writing about while injecting a significant amount of emotion. The book is heavy in symbolism. Passages that seem to be no more than a description of the characters’ surroundings are full of hidden clues about the book’s meaning, as well as foreshadowing events to come. They also serve to tell the reader how the narrator is feeling at the moment, or what he thinks other characters might be thinking or feeling.