Town

The town where Andrés grew up is the primary setting for the novel. This town is never named, but is located in the suburbs of a major city. From context clues, the reader might deduce that the adjacent city is New York. The town, therefore, is an offshoot of this metropolis.

Andrés returns to the town in order to visit with and to help his parents following his father's surgery. While home, Andrés decides to attend his twentieth high school anniversary. During this event, Andrés encounters a number of his former classmates, including his first love, Jeremy.

Throughout his time back in the town, Andrés feels increasingly alienated and stuck. Despite these feelings, Andrés also feels incapable of distinguishing himself form the inhabitants who he has grown to disdain. In spite of his fraught relationship with the town throughout his adult life...