Oakland, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Oakland was too dangerous to even contemplate going into, and now it’s the new Brooklyn."

"It was an enormous concrete structure, adjacent to a vast parking lot on the outskirts of Oakland."

"Born in 1952 in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Amy Tan followed her own path."

"I turned to my opponent, a fifteen-year-old boy from Oakland. He looked at me, wrinkling his nose."

"As I remember it, the dark side of my mother sprang from the basement in our old house in Oakland."

"…Arnold Reisman, a boy who lived in our old neighborhood in Oakland, had died of complications from measles."

"On the radio news, while the percolator bubbles toward its red‐light stop, I hear about the child killed by wild dogs in San Jose, the hundred pounds of marijuana seized in North Beach, the school board meeting broken up by blacks in Daly City, the wife shot by her husband after a quarrel in an Oakland bar, the latest university riot, the Vietnam score."

"I went and spent sixteen dollars on it in the wilderness of Oakland Army Navy stores and drove around all day wondering if with roller-skates or suction cups you can technically call yourself a vehicle"

"…I said to Japhy "Well I've learned everything now, I'm ready. How about driving me to Oakland tomorrow and helping me buy all my rucksack and gear and stuff so I can take off for the desert?"

"He and I and Alvah drove to Oakland in Morley's car and went first to some Goodwill stores and Salvation Army stores to buy various flannel shirts (at fifty cents a crack) and undershirts."

"Then we drove to the huge Army Navy store in Oakland and went way in the back where sleeping bags were hanging from hooks and all kinds of equipment, including Morley's famous air mattress, water cans, flashlights, tents, rifles, canteens, rubber boots, incredible doodas for hunters and fishermen, out of which Japhy and I found a lot of useful little things for bhikkus."

"to the cottages of Oakland and then downtown Oakland, where Japhy wanted to find a pair of jeans that fitted me."

"We proceeded along the south slope of a beautiful mountain that afforded us a view of the Golden Gate and even of Oakland miles away for hours on end as we trudged."

"»Und wo war das?« »In Oakland. Wir sind da hingezogen, als wir geheiratet haben, Frank hat da bei der Post gearbeitet, aber die haben nicht genug gezahlt, und der Job hat ihm nicht gefallen."

"We’re sitting, instead in the early afternoon, in the living-room of a neat house in a lushly treed area in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco."

"Ive made Enormous strides here in Oakland and in San Francisco."

"But the radio warned us to stay away from the Bay AFreroa.mSanJoseupthroughSanFrancisco,Oakland,and Berkeley, there is chaos"

"I would hate it if I got moved outta Oakland, because I know it so well, from West to East to Deep East and back, on bike or bus or BART. It’s my only home. I wouldn’t make it nowhere else."

"He’d been seeing it for years all over Oakland."

"I'm in Oakland, California, now. My mom and Bill met at a bar in downtown Oakland."

"…it was a really good time to be from Oakland."

"“I’m going back to Oakland this summer. In a couple months, actually, for the powwow, but also—”"

"“Can you tell me your name, your age, and where you’re from?” Dene says. “Okay. Orvil Red Feather. Fourteen. Oakland.”"

"then stocked and shelved and bought in Oakland at a Walmart off of Hegenberger Road by a young man by the name of Tony Loneman."

"Okay, so I grew up here in Oakland, and I’m, um, I’m Cheyenne, well I’m not enrolled yet, but, like, I will be, with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, my dad told me we’re Cheyenne and not Arapaho, and, sorry, I’m gonna be interning for the next few months leading up to the powwow, I’m here to help with the powwow,"

"“You’re gonna say your name and tribe. Talk about the place or places you’ve lived in Oakland, and then if you can think of a story to tell, like something that’s happened to you in Oakland that might, like, give a picture of what it’s been like for you specifically, growing up in Oakland, as a Native person, what it’s been like.”"

"“My mom put me on a bus out here to Oakland, where my uncle owned a restaurant.”"

"I mostly see Oakland from online now. That’s where we’re all gonna be mostly eventually."

"“We get off at the same exit,” Tony says. “Coliseum. There’s a powwow. You should come.”"

"It feels good to be back in Oakland. All the way back. She’s been back a year."

"Before you were born, your halves inside them moved to Oakland."

"People didn’t really want to sign on for a new powwow. Especially one in Oakland. If it doesn’t go well, the powwow won’t happen again next year. And they’ll be out of a job."

"JACQUIE AND HARVEY GET into Oakland the night before the powwow."

"He was holding three or four Big Oakland Powwow T-shirts against his stomach."

"Denise Pate at the Oakland Cultural Arts Fund, for funding a storytelling project that never came to fruition except for in fiction—i.e., in a chapter of this novel."

"The Native community in Oakland."

"There There A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORTOMMY ORANGE was born and raised in Oakland, California."

"How is the city of Oakland characterized in the novel? How does the city’s gentrification affect the novel’s characters? Their attitudes toward home and stability?"

"Gordon had not understood this until he got to NCWF, which he’d chosen because it was commutable from Oakland, and because working with women seemed to him less threatening than a prison classroom of men."

"Gordon left downtown Oakland in the late afternoon, and drove east, and south."

"On New Year’s, he and Alex went to a party in Oakland, a typical situation of people jammed in a kitchen and asking pointless questions like, What do you do? And, Where are you from?"

"Thanks also to Ayelet Waldman; Molly Kovel; Joanna Neborsky; Maya Andrea Gonzalez; Amanda Scheper; Justice Now of Oakland, California; and Paul and Lori Sutton."

"I brought home outdated racist insults from school like it was the 1950s… those Oakland hills separate us from Oakland."