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The tortilla curtain / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 014023828X
  • ISBN: 9780140238280
  • Physical Description: 355 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, c1995.
Target Audience Note:
1210L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.1 22 71300.
Subject:
Married people > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Noncitizens > Fiction.
Mexicans > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Married people.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Ethnic relations > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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