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TL;DR I believe the term you are looking for is Fractured Narrative : the style of narrative wherein many stories are told simultaneously, typically having immediately unclear relation to one another, but are told chronologically.

As with all these definitions, they tend to be rather broad and subsequently you could argue that A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) is technically a fractured narrative.

Perhaps it also should be noted that narrative structure and narrative style are different. Narrative structure pertains to exactly this; it asks the question "how is the story structured?" The reply may be chronological, circular or, indeed, fractured. Narrative style pertains to what kind of narrator is speaking: first person, third person etc.

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