What is the setting in the opening pages of the novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty?

The novel opens at a house party on Memorial Day in the Bushwick neighborhood of New York City. It is in this setting that Feyi has sex with Milan, an experience that leads her to feel that she is moving out of a phase of isolated mourning for her husband Jonah after losing him in a car accident five years earlier. This experience also acts as a catalyst for the rest of the events in the novel, as it leads to Feyi meeting Milan’s friend Nasir, who in turn leads her to his father, Alim, the man who she eventually falls in love with.