4. Mukherjee did a good job of describing the place that the protagonist was in. She talked about the different types of people who were there, and what it looked like. However I had a tough time figuring out when the story was set. She never really said exactly when it was, you were supposed to be able to figure it out based on clues that she was dropping I assume. However I didn’t really pick up on any of the clues. When she was in Hasnapur I had a good picture in my mind of what it might look like: a small town/city that was poor, and had fields behind it. New York City was easy for me to picture, because I’ve actually been there. Idaho was easy for me to picture because she did a good job of describing the vastness of it, and the way that their house was. So even though I had a good idea of what the places the protagonist was in looked like, I couldn’t really connect any of the events to what time period it was set in. It was difficult to imagine what exactly things were like for Jasmine, when I didn’t know when the story was set.