Alhambra, California, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"They were all out in a garage in that crappy place they lived, Alhambra, for God’s sake, so I never had a place to keep my car."

"I think of Loma in some motel room in Alhambra or El Monte, the poor southeast agricultural dregs of Los Angeles, sweating under the form of our American literature professor, staring at the ceiling, considering her thirties, coming soon, and with them the end of youth."

"Or the stupid ones, the really stupid ones, who lived in the goatish eastern suburbs of L.A.—Pomona, Covina, Alhambra, Upland—took their impulse to flee but took it east."