Oaxaca, Mexico (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"…about how those wages were still coveted by the desperate who arrived from Querétaro or Zacatecas or Oaxaca…"

"In Oaxaca, in San Cristóbal, the world had three layers."

"The women who own the taqueria are from Oaxaca. Araceli and Serafina."

"When it snowed in the mountains in Oaxaca, her grandmother took her to sit beside the perfect light drifts and wait for the first birds to etch their trails."

"When the police found her mother’s body inside the car, in the flooded wash of the river outside Oaxaca City."

"Araceli believed that if you had transplanted this woman to Oaxaca she would have made very fine pottery, or papel picado, or been an excellent stage manager for a theater group wandering through the suburbs of El Distrito Federal."

"she left a stack of sopes waiting to be garnished with Oaxaca cheese in the kitchen"

"Isabel detected a faint coloring of Oaxaca or Guatemala in their skin—perhaps she was their aunt or cousin."

"this man was a campesino from Oaxaca, in battered jeans and a molded straw hat like the men in Tepoztlán wore, and he used the familiar with her right away and even called her 'daughter."