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While Ammu experiences ‘Elsewhere’ as a kind of ‘spiritual calling’—an inward choice rather than an external imposition—for others, it represents not merely a physical location, it is also a condition of unbelonging (p. 88). To be elsewhere is to be outside: of nations, of relationships, of language, of continuity. The primary narratorial voice belongs to Jeet, the son of Ammu and George. Like his parents, he is an Elsewherean, equally shaped by displacement and dislocation. Jeet retraces paths already taken: working for the Hong Kong magazine his father once led