Torrance, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"She was staying in a little house in Torrance, California. She seemed edgy, and hovered near her husband, a big, hulking fellow."

"Then when they opened the Torrance plant, they moved me over there. My wife got a job in the Torrance plant, too. They do Toyota subassemblies."

"I'm not Japanese," he said seriously. "I'm Japanese-American, which means in their eyes I'm gaijin. If I go to Japan, they treat me like any other foreigner. It doesn't matter how I look, I was born in Torrance — and that's the end of it."

"Now it's the Japanese research labs like Hitachi in Long Beach, Sanyo in Torrance, Canon in Inglewood."

"“It was a bill from the Edwards Fine Art Display Company of Torrance, California, for construction of a wooden pedestal to support a statue of a Buddha.”"

"…he’d work in places like Santa Clarita and Torrance for weeks at a time."

"It’s true there are a zillion places no one in his right mind would like: Lakewood, Torrance, Brea, Compton, Carson, no one real lived there, any more than real people lived in those grey asphalt boxes that line the roads between New York’s airport and its island."

"Carson, Hawthorne, Culver City, South Gate, and Torrance are all designated by a working-class cactus green."