The Tortilla Curtain hest his tidy narrative of the

his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation

The novel challenges Victorian ideals of romance and morality

trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth—a youth of great energy and optimism

and seas and filled the world with animals

with its chilling final revelation

The Tortilla Curtain hest his tidy narrative of theTopanga 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 Cndido and Amrica Rincn 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