The Tortilla Curtain

Locations
Call Number: Fiction / Boyle, T. Coraghessan, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Boyle, T. Coraghessan
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Boyle, T. Coraghessan	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Boyle, T. Coraghessan	4-week checkout	On Shelf

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Caricatures and not likable but totally identifiable submitted by barbaracherem on March 7, 2008, 9:14am I found Boyle's story engaging and thought-provoking, but his characters pretty two -dimensional, almost caricatures who I felt manipulated in to both liking (America and Candida) and disliking (DeLaney and Kyra).
I expected to learn a bit about Immigration in that it was a Community Reads book, but it was pretty shallow
in this regard.
The plot concerning the construction of a "Wall" to keep nature out (the coyotes whose territory the subdivision had displaced) was an obvious metaphor for the keeping out of another natural, but disliked and feared "predator", the Mexicans. The more Delaney felt threatened, the greater his fear and self-told stories of the despicable Mexican(s).
He and his shallow wife, Kyra, the realtor, were looking for their own American Dream, of comfort and convenience, and a sort of California entitlement which left you rooting for any one other than them.
There was just not enough nuance or character complexity, nor enough factual information on the context of CA immigration, to have this be a book worthy of a Community Read. It's an adequate work of literary fiction, but certainly no prize winner.

A heartbreaking snapshot of colliding cultures. submitted by globesky on August 22, 2018, 2:15am This book was, at times, heart wrenching. Devastating, actually. And by the end of it, I'm not sure what I came away with except for a solidified sense of despair over the realities of life as an illegal immigrant, and a respect for those who endure it.