![]() ![]() The Behala trash dump, the area the boys call home through the first part of the novel, appears a desparately squalid land where the most impoverished people dig through mountains of garbage to carve out a livelihood for themselves and their families. ![]() ![]() Setting : Unnamed Developing Country in a Not-so-Distant FutureĪlthough Mulligan presents Trash as happening in a relatively distant future, this novel seems realistically present, and while the country or geographic area are not specified, the celebrations of the Day of the Dead seem to point to Mexico, a nation influenced by Mexican cultural traditions, or one of the few other Latin American countries that have similar celebrations. ![]()
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