I’m sorry but the reader’s voices and accents are everywhere. a mix between lowbrow and high… smokers cough/old.. and I’m assuming an attempt to memic northeast fishermen due to the town being on the coast of the northeast. both men and women in the novel suffer from the mix… even the two MCs are unrecognizable among them… sometimes having a clear young voice with a highbrow accent be it with a mix of fishermen accent and then sometimes its rough and old sounding…. like someone with a bad case of smokers cough. it really does ruin the novel.