Connie’s answer to “Moriarty inserts the pandemic into the final chapters of the book. Does that totally break the moo…” > Likes and Comments

The setting is deliberately vague...it's the recent past, but clearly NOT current because the Delaneys' story has nothing to do with the pandemic. That's not denying our times, it's just finishing the story that's being told without tacking-on a completely new conflict at the end.