San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"On the small round top was the photo of Ximena’s mother, taken when she was ten, braids wrapped around her head like a crown, her skirt held wide in each hand for a dance in the zócalo. Liliana. Back in San Cristóbal."

"and then she remembered the dogs in the river back at San Cristóbal, heads up, snouts in the air, legs furious below."