Santa Ana, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Traveling with an almost religious simplicity to a place I had never heard of, a town near Santa Ana, back west, where Sam was staying for the winter."

"In San Francisco I boarded a shuttle to Santa Ana."

"Over the city spread a white murkiness like fog. But it was not the fog: it was the desert heat, the great blasts from the Mojave and Santa Ana, the pale white fingers of the wasteland, ever reaching out to claim its captured child."

"she drove the San Diego to the Harbor, the Harbor up to the Hollywood, the Hollywood to the Golden State, the Santa Monica, the Santa Ana, the Pasadena, the Ventura."

"When I left the pink box of two dozen at the Santa Ana Division where I worked."

"Out of Santa Ana Division, we rode 225 miles of freeway on patrol…"

"We drove down the 91 toward Santa Ana."

"I drove down the Golden State Freeway to Santa Ana. I went to Samana Som’s doughnut shop."

"MindWare’s own, commissioned headquarters, an architectural gem in downtown Santa Ana that now belonged to the county’s largest real estate brokerage"

"Araceli’s biweekly excursions took her to the home of a friend in Santa Ana, an hour away by foot and bus. After a while, she had grown to appreciate the routine that carried her from the Torres‐Thompson universe into the Mexican‐flavored neighborhoods of Santa Ana’s barrio."

"“Where does she go on the weekend?” Maureen asked Scott. “I think she said to Santa Ana. I’m pretty sure I heard her say that once.”"

"Olivia Garza had worked her way up from Case Worker I in the Santa Ana office with the files of 127 children whose parents and guardians were raccoon‐eyed heroin addicts."

"if there might still be a way to get to that money she had in the bank in Santa Ana"

"In his small kitchen-dining room in Santa Ana, Octavio Covarrubias made Araceli a breakfast of eggs with chorizo, fresh-squeezed juice from oranges plucked from the tree in the backyard, and a side dish of fried nopals, from the petals of an enormous cactus plant that grew in a vacant lot down the street."

"… and those images too would appear on the web, in an essay of eleven images that his Los Angeles newspaper would headline “Arrest, Anger, and Drama in Santa Ana,” accompanied by the breathless audio narration of Cynthia Villarreal: “Araceli Ramirez knew that she would soon be taken into custody, but her response was a defiant one.”"

"The headline in question ran on the lower half of the page, incongruously below a photograph of children at a public swimming pool in Santa Ana."

"He had forgotten about Escalante and the proto-martyr languishing in a Santa Ana jail cell."

"Her step north had brought her to a cell in Santa Ana, to become familiar with the angles in the walls, the sounds of the corridors, among inmates hypnotized by the collective need to sleep."

"“That’s the consul of Mexico in Santa Ana,” Glass whispered into Araceli’s ear."

"Ian Goller had fed these bits of info to three different reporters at a Santa Ana Denny’s, and had felt oddly spent and empty afterward."

"“¿Y quién es usted?” … “Soy Emilio Ordaz Rivera,” the man said, adding with a measured frankness, “Soy el cónsul de México en Santa Ana.”"

"They drove back to Santa Ana, and she told him about how Ruthy had taken apart the prosecution."

"…so don’t even go back to that address in Santa Ana. That’ll be the first place they’ll look for you—because he’s probably calling the ICE people right now."

"Night choked down the Santa Ana winds and in the morning an onshore flow pumped moisture into the air..."

"“Authorization and Certificate of Confidential Marriage”—Personal Data of Husband: He tired quickly. Personal Data of Wife: She was four months pregnant and wanted to change the date, but the man behind the counter said not to worry, he would change it on the record. Married in the town of Santa Ana, county of Orange, state of California. They had to transfer buses twice. They got there five minutes before the office closed, and he held the door open while she went to the bathroom."