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Books by
T. C. Boyle


WILD CHILD:
And Other Stories


THE WOMEN

TALK TALK

TOOTH AND CLAW

THE INNER CIRCLE

DESCENT OF MAN

WATER MUSIC

BUDDING PROSPECTS: A Pastoral

GREASY LAKE AND OTHER STORIES

WORLD'S END

IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY: Stories

EAST IS EAST

THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE

WITHOUT A HERO: Stories

THE TORTILLA CURTAIN

RIVEN ROCK

T. C. BOYLE STORIES

A FRIEND OF EARTH

AFTER THE PLAGUE

Reading Group Guides

A FRIEND OF THE EARTH

RIVEN ROCK

THE TORTILLA CURTAIN
T.C. Boyle
Penguin Books
Fiction
ISBN: 014023828X

Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of them, Candido and America Rincon, have come to Southern California and are living in a makeshift camp deep in a ravine. At the top of Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a gated community. He is a nature writer, and she an obsessive realtor. And when a freak accident brings these two couples together, the result is a tragi-comedy of error and misunderstanding.

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