What is the setting in Drown?

There are three main settings in this collection: Santo Domingo, Edison, New Jersey and New York City. The time spans from late 1970’s when Yunior is a small boy through his adulthood.

Stories that are set in Santo Domingo are recollections of the narrator’s childhood. These stories have numbered sections that separate the anecdotes. The stories in Edison, New Jersey are where Yunior lives after his father has come to get them from Santo Domingo. The narrator lives here much of his life.

The stories of his father are from New York when he first arrived in the United States. During this time his father remarried and lived in a house with his new wife and baby.