Dubai

This is the main setting for the bulk of the novel. This is where Sandros Batros lives and where X is sent to become the Family Manager. Ostensibly the family aren't sure that Sandros is managing the family fortune appropriately and so have brought X in to oversee things. Dubai is always being built and X notes that at any given time there are a dozen high rises being built. It is a city of haves and have nots, where the have nots are so despondent and down trodden that they commit suicide regularly.

The Situation

This is the name of the apartment complex where both Ted Wilson and the narrator live in Dubai.

Manhattan

This is where X and Jenn lived when they were together. It is also where they both worked for a Wall Street Law firm.

The Ocean

The Ocean around Dubai is where X...