The Tortilla Curtain

This is truly no literature for the faint of heart, but a great piece of social criticism screaming out of each page of this work. Reread 2022 with extended review Disturbing for in your face reasons Boyle has a unique writing style by dissecting the problems of trends, ages, immanent structural mal......more

"The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle is not without its flaws, but even a decade or more after publication, it has only grown in its relevance regarding the deep-seated problems of illegal immigration, particularly the Mexican-southwestern U.S. nexus. Boyle tells the story of two couples, one rich, w......more

Good portraits of white privilège in the upper crust hills of Los Angeles, and the struggle for existence of illegal aliens alongside them hidden in underbrush, figuratively and literally. Liberalism when it's easy, hypocrisy and racism otherwise. Not the best TCB I've read, but strong nonetheless. 3......more

This is probably not going to be a popular opinion, but...I didn't like this book very much. I might have DNF but I kept hoping it would get better. So depressing. You have a Mexican family searching for a better life and the wealthy white family who slide into cruelty. The characters aren't very......more

I took this out from the library over a year ago. I lost the book, paid for it, found it again, settled in to read it, but before I could do this Ryan returned it to the library thinking that it was way way overdue. Enough time has elapsed for me to overcome my feeling of foolishness, so I checked i......more