What is the main setting in the novel, Immigrant, Montana?

Most of the novel takes place in New York City, where Kailash attends graduate school. Kailash arrives in New York City around 1990, and he quickly finds life there enjoyable. He studies at the university and begins dating for the first time in his life. However, he struggles with a sense of guilt, for he feels that, in enjoying life in American so readily, he is forsaking his Indian heritage.