When does this book take place? At first I thought it was 2014 because of some of the cultural references Mayor makes, but then he says he remembers being sad on September 11th. If he was old enough to process September 11th, there's no way he'd be only 15 or 16 in 2014. Also, there's one character that says she opened a theatre company in 1971 and now says 20 years later she's 50 years old.