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A review by lilyridehalgh
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, T.C. Boyle
4.0
That ending was so, so harrowing.
I wasn't sure what I was expecting but it sure wasn't that - that environmental shift.
Throughout Cándido and América's journey I followed along with their hope as well as their loss of it.
This book was a journey itself because I went back and forth between liking and not liking it.
I liked the way the stories are woven together, as separate bodies that eventually met.
I did not like at one point how T.C. Boyle seemed to make a comedy of Cándido's hunger. Maybe not a comedy, maybe it was trivialised. I'm not sure, I know books are meant to be entertaining, and that the eating of the cat was necessary, but the way it was phrased seemed strangely dramatised.
Anyway, there is far more to a book than my interpretation.
I think this was a good, essential read that paints a picture of immigrant life and survival, juxtaposed by the racist hatred in America, that I only have a view of through media such as this.
I wasn't sure what I was expecting but it sure wasn't that - that environmental shift.
Throughout Cándido and América's journey I followed along with their hope as well as their loss of it.
This book was a journey itself because I went back and forth between liking and not liking it.
I liked the way the stories are woven together, as separate bodies that eventually met.
I did not like at one point how T.C. Boyle seemed to make a comedy of Cándido's hunger. Maybe not a comedy, maybe it was trivialised. I'm not sure, I know books are meant to be entertaining, and that the eating of the cat was necessary, but the way it was phrased seemed strangely dramatised.
Anyway, there is far more to a book than my interpretation.
I think this was a good, essential read that paints a picture of immigrant life and survival, juxtaposed by the racist hatred in America, that I only have a view of through media such as this.