While most of the novel is set in modern times, one character spends a section of the novel reflecting on her life when she was living in Havana, Cuba immediately before and after Fidel Castro's Revolution of Cuba in 1959.
The majority of the narrative unfolds in modern-day settings, but a character spends a segment of the book recalling her past when she resided in Havana, Cuba, right before and after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.