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Croatia

This Balkan nation is the site of a pivotal conflict for the protagonist. Having been involved in the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, the nation has a history of upset and tumult, fitting for the event in the narrator’s life.

Desert Rose Apartments

The housing complex in which the protagonist and her love-interest lodge for much of the main narrative present of the novel, this facility is somewhat dilapidated and in ill repair. Besetting the protagonist and her love-interest with problems, it nonetheless prompts them together.

The Linfields

The sister-city hometowns of the protagonist and her love-interest, these Midwestern cities are presented as prototypical small towns. The protagonist’s origin in them serves as a universalizing feature.

Millennial Ennui

This vague philosophical concept receives some attention in the novel. Nebulously definable as a form of boredom peculiar to those who entered adulthood in the early twenty-first century...

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