The setting of the various stories are very important and powerfully inform the narratives. Many stories—"Children of the Sea," "A Missing Peace," "Between the Pool and the Gardenias"—take place in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. In the author's conception of the capital city, Port-au-Prince is full of both fabulous wealth (as the narrator's masters and their fine mansion in "Between the Pool and the Gardenias") and desperate poverty (as with the shantytown of "A Wall of Fire Rising"). It is also the site of bloody violence and the various massacres and bloody military coups that have marred Haiti's history in the twentieth century. As such, as in "A Missing Peace," Port-Au-Prince is a ruined place full of curfews and the omnipresent threat of the military.
Minor cities include New York, and the village of Ville Rose, which is fictional.
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