Frois noted how believable she found the couple with their "desires, disappointments, misunderstandings, hopes", and how the narrative alternates between drama and comedy, "like in life."

The narrative alternates between first and third person, with large swatches interpolated from Magda's diaries.

The narrative alternates between three characters (Emiko, Anton and Sophie) and takes place around the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, though the back story of each character is told.

The narrative alternates between Mr. Barney and a race involving a pair of two-man motorcycles speeding in opposite directions.

The narrative alternates between first- and third-person as the protagonist connects her love affair to her memories of her teenage years, showing how she achieves strength through the interweaving of her private and her public lives.

Lily's narrative alternates between memoir and linguistic meditations on ancient and modern Hebrew.

The narrative alternates between separate narratives.

Set in the late 1980's, the narrative alternates between two unnamed characters: a Protestant paramilitary man who breaks out of a New York mental hospital and his estranged, hunchbacked daughter, who attends a high school in Ulster.

The narrative alternates between the story of Inman and that of Ada Monroe, a minister's daughter recently relocated from Charleston to the rural mountain community of Cold Mountain.

In "The 9/11 Commission Report," the narrative alternates between the perspectives of the terrorists and the government.