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