What does the Puppetry School in Vienna, Austria represent in the short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours?

The Puppetry School in Vienna, featured in “is your blood as red as this?” seems to represent its own kind of world, outside the world as readers may know it. The puppetry school concentrates children from a variety of backgrounds. Tyche Shaw is black, Radha Chaudhry’s grandfather is Gujarati, and Gustav Garibaldi is possibly Italian. But the puppetry school is not only diverse in the human meaning of being racially diverse. It also puts humans in contact with uncanny, human-like puppet creatures, who are both human and not human at the same time.