The Tortilla Curtain
- Authors
- T. C. Boyle
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Penguin Group
- Tags
- literature
- Date
- 1995-01-01T18:38:43+00:00
- Size
- 0.76 MB
- Lang
- en
Paperback, 355 pages
Published 1995
Penguin Group (1996)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
Topanga 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.