Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I remembered there were metal detectors at the entrance to the coliseum."

"…ride across the pedestrian bridge that gets them to the coliseum. The coliseum looks massive. Bigger than it looks when you see it from BART or driving by on the freeway."

"You remember when I told you about that Laney powwow, you said you wanted to go because there was that big one coming up at the Oakland Coliseum, and you were on the powwow committee for work. You remember that?"

"The coliseum was only a mile away from our house on Seventy-Second."

"INSIDE THE COLISEUM, the field is already packed with people, with dancers, tables, and canopies."

"She looks up at the sky, then at the empty third deck. That’s where they’d watched the game from with the boys. She sees something fly over the edge of the rim of the coliseum."

"The drive to the coliseum feels slow and tense. Every time he thinks to say something he takes a sip of coffee instead."

"The day is bright, and as he comes over the top of the coliseum, he hears his mom coming down the stairs."

"They hobbled out of the coliseum like that, all the way out to Blue’s car."