The Tortilla Curtain
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Tortilla Curtain is a 1995 novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, author of World's End and The Road to Wellville. It is set in Topanga Canyon in Southern California. Delaney Mossbacher, a liberal nature writer living in a gated community, hits Cándido Rincón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, with his car. The novel alternates between Delaney's comfortable world and the desperate life of Cándido and his pregnant wife América, camping in the canyon below.
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