A novel about traveling through this location opens with the protagonist narrowly avoiding a sinkhole that swallows a man, a car, and a dog. Bellocosa meets the title animal at an illicit dinner party in a novel set in this place titled Tears of the Trufflepig. Makina journeys through this location to search for her brother in the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World. This location is described as “una herida abierta,” or “an open wound,” in the opening of a book that ends by discussing how this location causes people to take on a “new consciousness.” A book titled for this location describes eight varieties of language spoken by people who have passed through this location in the section “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” For 10 points, a book by Gloria Anzaldúa subtitled “The New Mestiza” describes forms of culture originating from immigrants who have crossed what location? ■END■
ANSWER: US–Mexico border [or equivalents like the border between America and Mexico; accept Texas–Mexico border or equivalents; accept Rio Grande or Río Bravo del Norte; prompt on Borderlands or border or Borderlands/La Frontera by asking “which specific border?”; prompt on Texas, TX, Mexico, Chihuahua, Coahuila, United States, USA, or America] (Fernando A. Flores wrote Tears of the Trufflepig. Yuri Herrara wrote Signs Preceding the End of the World.)
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