Adult Book Club

Tortilla Curtain  by T.C. Boyle

Topanga Canyon is  home to two couples on a collision course.  Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he is 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 Delany into intimate contact, these four  and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.