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The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle
This not only makes a good companion to The Grapes of Wrath, it also has much to say about our country's current mania for building walls and excluding refugees and immigrants. In this architectonic novel, Boyle keeps two parallel plots going, allowing them to briefly touch only a couple of times during the narrative, finally bringing them together at the end, once the tragedy is complete.
Set during the 1990s, when California was reacting badly to the influx of undocumented workers from Mexico (Trump administration take note: a wall is absolutely the wrong way to go), Boyle tracks the well-off Mossbacher family and their life in the soon-to-be-walled development of Arroyo Blanco, and a Mexican couple, hard-working Candido and pregnant America Rincon, whose struggles are a horrible combination of Job and Sisyphus.
People in the novel assume the worst about those who are different, with the usual awful results, and which, combined with two classically Southern California disasters, results in
Set during the 1990s, when California was reacting badly to the influx of undocumented workers from Mexico (Trump administration take note: a wall is absolutely the wrong way to go), Boyle tracks the well-off Mossbacher family and their life in the soon-to-be-walled development of Arroyo Blanco, and a Mexican couple, hard-working Candido and pregnant America Rincon, whose struggles are a horrible combination of Job and Sisyphus.
People in the novel assume the worst about those who are different, with the usual awful results, and which, combined with two classically Southern California disasters, results in