I didn't even really twig it was a collection of short stories until I saw the reviews on the back cover - it read like a novel with a slightly unconventional timeline to me. 
The stories switch between perspectives, but they're at their strongest in second person. The story that focuses on racial identity was especially powerful from that perspective - as Trelawney grows up and is told by one person after another that he's this race or that, as he searches for belonging - that it's not coming from an I perspective but also you the reader being told that you are experiencing this - really added another layer to an already interesting narrative.