Capacity is a promise with numbers behind it.

Mara Sloane

Mara plans arrivals across beds, school places, water, intake, and the real limits of each arriving wave.

An arrivals worker helps parents and children choose household supplies beside a luggage cart.

What a place can carry

Mara turns an abstract expansion into a list of homes, supplies, service capacity, and people who need to know whether their place is ready. She makes the cost of an unfinished room visible before a family is asked to carry it.

Find this in the novel: Chapters 1, 3.

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