The Tortilla Curtain

<b>T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (<i>Entertainment </i>Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream<br> <br>“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” <i>—The Wall Street Journal</i><br></b><br><b>WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER</b><br><b><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. Undocumented immigrants 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 dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.