The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)

Type

Book

Authors

T. Coraghessan Boyle

ISBN 13

9780140238280

Tags

Humorous, Contemporary, Literary

Description

T.C. Boyle’s “compelling” (The Chicago Tribune) novel about assimilation and the price of the American dreamTopanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding. - from Amzon

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