Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I was standing there looking everywhichaway, eating an ice-cream cone, waiting for Jaimy who said he had an errand and would pick me up again and take me personally into Mexicali, Mexico, to meet his friends."

"Von Mexico City bis zur Grenze in Mexicali hatte Arcadio Lucero in einem Schlafwagenabteil Comics gelesen und geschlafen"

"José and Guillermo, born in Mexicali, who worked on all the machines and pipes in the buildings."

"Calexico. Mexicali. The canal between the countries."

"The first coyote had screamed at her in the same Spanish, on the Mexican side of the border at Mexicali, four teeth lined with gold like tiny gilt‐framed portraits in his open mouth."

"Calexico and Mexicali. Where my people had crossed hundreds of years ago."

"The door opened to a vortex of weeping Spanish souls that drained into Tijuana and Mexicali and other forsaken places."