The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla CurtainT. 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/1996
ISBN: 9780140238280
Pages: 355
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d

Review Citations: New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 44
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 07/22/1996

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain
Reading Level: 7.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 22