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Original Title: The Tortilla Curtain
ISBN: 014023828X (ISBN13: 9780140238280)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon, America Rincon
Setting: California(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States)
Literary Awards: Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors (2007), Prix Médicis Etranger (1997)

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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 Cándido and América Rincón 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 Cándido 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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Title:The Tortilla Curtain
Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 355 pages
Published:1995 by Penguin Books
Categories:Fiction. Contemporary. Book Club

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4.5 stars rounded up. I recently read this book for a college course and am so glad it was assigned. What a great book! I read it twice and it was even better the second time around. It really makes you think from all sides of the immigration equation and how things can spiral out of control, even with the best intentions. With the current political climate I wish everyone would read this story.

I hated this book! Hated hated hated! It was slow and really boring at ALL times. One of the worst books I have ever picked up.

This is probably not going to be a popular opinion, but...I didn't like this book very much. I might have DNF but I kept hoping it would get better. So depressing. You have a Mexican family searching for a better life and the wealthy white family who slide into cruelty. The characters aren't very well developed.

I personally found nothing likable or redeeming about this book. It's full of depressing, tragic (to the point of being very unrealistic in my opinion) events that keep on occurring to a poor, immigrant Mexican family. Their plight is contrasted with the transformation of a self-described "liberal humanist" into a paranoid racist who is obsessed with catching them. Except that the change in him is so dramatic in a relatively short time frame that I found it hard to believe. I found the book



I liked this book a lot.......until I started reaching the end. So there goes a star. I disliked the end because not one calamity but eight follow one after another! You lose touch with reality. Sure, each of these things could have happened but probably not all of them. (view spoiler)[ A baby is born out in the bush without any aid. The baby is blind. The baby is lost. There is a huge fire. There is gun chase and a landslide. All money is gone, and there is no hope of ever getting employment

its really hard to believe that mr. boyle lives anywhere near the US/Mexico border. His portrait of the subject is trite, ham-fisted and overly simplified. In the world of the tortilla curtain, being a liberal means that you recycle. In the world of the tortilla curtain, being hispanic means you are either unbelievably downtrodden and unlucky or you're carrying a knife and willing to use it. early in the novel, the protagonist hits a hispanic man with his car. when he goes to see if the man is