num_pages: 355
description: 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. 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.
language: English
title: The Tortilla Curtain
titlecomplete: The Tortilla Curtain
characters: America Rincon, Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon
genres: Fiction, American, Book Club, School, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 31910
places: California, Los Angeles, California
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Audie Award
category: Narration by the Author or Authors, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger
publisher: Penguin Books