The Tortilla Curtain

Description:

The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

subjects: Ethnic relations,  Fiction,  Humor (Fiction),  Illegal aliens,  Literature,  Marriage,  Married people,  Mexicans,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Married people, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction,  California, fiction,  Large type books,  Domestic fiction.sh,  Fiction, family life, general,  Marriage, fiction,  American fiction,  collectionID:ConroeChallenge,  World literature,  Fiction subjects,  Noncitizens,  Illegal immigration,  Culture conflict,  Domestic fiction

Places: California,  Los Angeles,  Los Angeles (Calif.)

Times: 20th century