Great Concavity “border metropolis” • near “anodized Lucite” walls and “giant protective” ASTHCME fans • childhood home of Gately and Trent (‘Quo Vadis’) Kite • where Gately lived in a “little like tract house by Mrs Waite’s tract house” with his mother and her abusive M.P. boyfriend and, “for a while,” Nimitz the kitty • where Gately attended middle and high school.