Calexico, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"At Calexico it was Christmas shopping time on Main Street with incredible perfect astonished Mexican beauties who kept getting so much better that when the first ones had repassed they'd already become capped and thin in my mind..."

"For my family of hundreds from Rubidoux to San Bernardino, Riverside to Sacramento, Los Angeles to Albany, Ontario to Echo Park, Anaheim to Los Feliz, Corona to Calexico."

"In the garage, outside Calexico, the coyote had flashed the penlight into Elpidia’s face"

"Fingers like uncooked rice. Three months and two weeks after Calexico."

"I got to Calexico. The border. Calexico and Mexicali. Where my people had crossed hundreds of years ago."

"RC Burns had helped my uncle get to California, had fixed my uncle’s truck back in 1945, when it broke down near Calexico."

"He had ridden on top of trains in southern Mexico, snuck into the backs of buses in Calexico, and had once called the Los Angeles City Fire Department’s 911 emergency line when his father’s eyes rolled back and he had stopped breathing on a bus bench on Main Street."