From the crowded marketplaces of Calcutta to a passenger train hugging a Nepalese mountainside to the Brampton, Ontario suburbs in the dead of winter, gives each place its fair due in this sumptuous linked collection of stories, all following various members of the Sen family of Shulut, India. In an essay below, Sabyasachi discusses place in literature, the treatment of place in his novel, and how Brampton is a “one-of-a-kind” place in the Greater Toronto Area.