The Tortilla CurtainThe Tortilla Curtain
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eBook, 1995
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While leading their lives in their gated hilltop community in Los Angeles, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher accidently meet Mexican illegal aliens Ca+a7ndido and Ame+a7rica Rinco+a7n, and their encounter brings them together in a relationship of error and misunderstanding. Reprint.
<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>“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” <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 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.
<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>“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” <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 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.
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