Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I had taken up the invitation a few days later at a tiki bar in Silver Lake, frequented by heavyset men in Hawaiian shirts and women whose denim skirts barely harnessed their generous rumps."

"They lived in a little house in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles—a place you never used to read about or hear about, but it was there, west of downtown, east of Hollywood, north of Inglewood, south of the San Fernando Valley, a place with no borders and little character."

"Mostly white public-school kids whose parents lived above their means in upper-middle-class neighborhoods like Cheviot Hills, Silver Lake, and the Palisades."