The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)

The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)

<b><b>T.C. Boyle€s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream </b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>€œA masterpiece of contemporary social satire . . . Turning the collective face of Mexican immigration into one ordinary human being, and walking many bruising miles in Candido€s cheap shoes, is Mr. Boyle€s gift to our collective conscience. But what makes <i>The Tortilla Curtain</i> good reading for any political stripe is that the author neither romanticizes the newcomers nor demonizes those who would pull up the ladder behind them.€ <i>€"The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br></b>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 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.