The Tortilla Curtain
ISBN:014023828X
ISBN13:9780140238280
Publisher:Penguin Books
Authors:T. C. Boyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle, T.C. Boyle
The Tortilla Curtain Description
The Tortilla Curtain 0 Edition Winner of the Prix Medicis EtrangerTopanga 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.