El Monte, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Isolated voices scattered about suburbs like El Monte and Lancaster, fighting the evils of bilingual education and the bad habits of these people."

"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."