The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
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The Tortilla Curtain

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/20/2008

Synopsis

T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream “A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.”—The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER 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.

About T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on June 11, 2022

This is truly no literature for the faint of heart, but a great piece of social criticism screaming out of each page of this work. Reread 2022 with extended review Disturbing for in your face reasons Boyle has a unique writing style by dissecting the problems of trends, ages, immanent structural mal......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 30, 2007

"The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle is not without its flaws, but even a decade or more after publication, it has only grown in its relevance regarding the deep-seated problems of illegal immigration, particularly the Mexican-southwestern U.S. nexus. Boyle tells the story of two couples, one rich, w......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa on March 10, 2025

Good portraits of white privilège in the upper crust hills of Los Angeles, and the struggle for existence of illegal aliens alongside them hidden in underbrush, figuratively and literally. Liberalism when it's easy, hypocrisy and racism otherwise. Not the best TCB I've read, but strong nonetheless. 3......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on November 07, 2017

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......more

Goodreads review by mark on March 22, 2008

I took this out from the library over a year ago. I lost the book, paid for it, found it again, settled in to read it, but before I could do this Ryan returned it to the library thinking that it was way way overdue. Enough time has elapsed for me to overcome my feeling of foolishness, so I checked i......more

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