The New York Apartment

The New York apartment is where the family's collective life together begins. Scenes depicting the apartment are all filtered through the wife's remembrance. The apartment appears as a place of peace, understanding, and collective interests, both creatively and emotionally. Once the family leaves this space, however, and begins their trip to south to Arizona, the true divisions between them become increasingly evident. The enclosure of their first home seems a sort of containment for familial ideals, while the open road that follows upsets these more illusory hopes.

Echo Canyon

Echo Canyon is the site where the family reconvenes at the end of the novel. Throughout the road trip, the children's father tells them many tales about the canyon and the Eagle Warriors whose stories intersected with the location. The boy and girl become enamored with these accounts, hoping to some day visit the site. Later...