The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)

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. Coraghessan Boyle

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: September 01, 1996

Number of Pages: 355 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 014023828X

ISBN-13: 9780140238280