India, July 11 -- Under Water's first two parts establish timelines and histories, while 'Home' appears to dissolve time. Would you agree?

Each of the chapter headings in the first two parts explicitly mention the place and date. Time is extremely important. Seeing these dates - 28 October 2012 and 25 December 2004, some readers will know immediately that these are the dates before the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Sandy. But the last section has a different temporality; I wanted it to feel like Marissa is returning, coming back, with no sense of a deadline, no upcoming event. But I do think it is open to interpretation. For some readers, there might be a sense of finality in her homecoming, but for others, this might feel like a sh...