Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Ya, vámonos, ándale, let’s get moving. ¡Ya! In Nezahualcóyotl, you didn’t have to walk twenty minutes to get to the bus stop – just half a block and two or three buses waiting for you."

"in too many homes to count in the stacked cubes of the Nezahualcóyotl neighborhood where women conspired during the day to undo the tangles men made with their words at night."

"In Araceli’s family home in Nezahualcóyotl children were obedient, quiet, and nondemanding: girls, especially, were expected to occupy quiet, scrubbed spaces that adults were free to ignore."

"associated in her youth with certain mean-spirited street vendors in Nezahualcóyotl"

"If your car was stolen, you paid the police to get it back for you, which had happened to her father, in the comisaría in Nezahualcóyotl."

"She had been this way as a girl in Nezahualcóyotl, when her mother slipped into those seasonal depressions that kept her from working for several days at a time, once or twice a year."

"from her mother’s kitchen, to the television next to the stacks of cigarettes in the abarrote sundry store on the corner in Nezahualcóyotl, to the breakfast restaurants of Polanco in Mexico City, where businessmen would see her as they ate their chilaquiles."