Author Susan Straight was born in Riverside, California and still lives in Riverside. For her, residents’ citrus trees and commeraderie are the ties that bound people in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area’s massive interior, and they’re what can sustain them through future hard times.
Five Quarters of the Orange: A Sense of Place in the Inland Empire
Susan Straight | KCET | September 7, 2011 | 1,491 words
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