The Tortilla Curtain

T.C. Boyle’s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream

“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” –The Wall Street Journal

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 immigrants 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.

Author: T. C. Boyle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780140238280
Language: English