Wright, inspired by Aboriginal storytelling traditions, aimed to construct the book as a "multi-vocal" text by presenting a collection of more than 50 interviews with Tilmouth and those who knew him.

Wright, an Aboriginal writer of the Waanyi nation, interviewed more than 50 people in writing Tracker, arranging their stories both thematically and chronologically to craft a narrative that has been described as "multi-vocal" and as a set of "collected fragments".

[3][4] Wright drew upon Aboriginal oral storytelling traditions, writing that "a Western-style biography would never work for someone like [Tracker]".

[8] Writing in The Monthly, Frank Bongiorno wrote that this "total reliance on oral history" was not without problems, commenting that "aside from a brief introduction there is no authorial voice to help us interpret the contradictions in this material".

[10][11] Phillip Hall wrote in the Plumwood Mountain Journal that the book "points the way forward to a new type of biographical method, one that esteems First Australian storytelling, tolerance and magnanimity".