When Does "A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl" (2025) Take Place?
"A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl" is a historical fiction novel written by Nanda Reddy that released March 4th, 2025. So when is "A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because Sunita "Sunny" Kissoon/Neena Das/Synthia/Maya Augustina and her sister Roshini are aware of "KITT, the talking car from Knight Rider." "The girls had been sneaking behind Small's rum shop Saturday afternoons, fighting over the biggest gap in the pub's wooden slats to watch the show on Small's new TV." "Knight Rider" (1982) premiered on September 26th, 1982 AD so it must be after September of 1982 AD. (American television shows were available fairly quickly in Guyana during the 1980s thanks to the quasi-legal station Television Guyana, which started broadcasting in May of 1980 AD.)
1985 AD
We know this because Sunita "Sunny" Kissoon/Neena Das/Synthia/Maya Augustina and her sister Roshini are aware of "KITT, the talking car from Knight Rider." "The girls had been sneaking behind Small's rum shop Saturday afternoons, fighting over the biggest gap in the pub's wooden slats to watch the show on Small's new TV." "Knight Rider" (1982) premiered on September 26th, 1982 AD so it must be after September of 1982 AD. (American television shows were available fairly quickly in Guyana during the 1980s thanks to the quasi-legal station Television Guyana, which started broadcasting in May of 1980 AD.)
More specifically, within this section is chapter 5 in which Sunny narrates that she was 'swinging her hips to Byron Lee's "Tiny Winey." ', a song that released in 1984 AD or 1985 AD.
Furthermore, "PART ONE" has a subheading that reads "MAY 1985" and "PART TWO" has one reading "SUMMER 1985".
Additionally, there is a frame narrative that includes the phrase "the mental tactics that have worked for thirty years to bury my past fail me." in Maya's narration strongly implying it has been 30 years since the character's arrival in the United States of America, making it currently around 2015 AD.
1985 + 30 = 2015.
Finally, within this frame Maya flashes back to the beginnings of her relationship with Dwayne. She narrates, "listening to jazz at the Centennial Olympic Park", a public park built for the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and usable by July of 1996 AD. So it must be during or after July of 1996 AD. This section quickly moves ahead with the phrases "A year in" and "Two years in".
