South Whittier, California, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"When Scott Torres was a kid living in South Whittier he cut the lawn himself, and as he pushed the machine over the slope of his bloated home in the Laguna Rancho Estates, he tried to draw on those lessons his father had passed down two decades earlier, on a cul-de-sac called Safari Drive."

"Escape from work in the strawberry and cabbage fields of California, or from the horizonless hamlets of Maine to the modest affluence of South Whittier, was accomplishment enough."

"She had taken the argument back to South Whittier, to that sad little two‐story home of thin drywall and crabgrass lawns."

"He approached the Telegraph Road exit to his old South Whittier neighborhood."

"What was left of Scott’s anger melted away in the early afternoon drive back from South Whittier to the coast..."

"“Where did you go to school?” “South Whittier. St. Paul High.”"

"His bald‐headed look transported Scott back to South Whittier and to the first recruits to a lifestyle his father told him was “for losers who don’t want to learn good English.”"

"At 5:30 p.m. she was back on Interstate 5, heading north toward South Whittier in heavy traffic..."