T. C. Boyle - A digital scrap-book about "The Tortilla Curtain"
Our review (well, Silke's)
Here we are, in the middle of a hot Los Angeles Summer, witnessing a car-accident on a dusty Canyon road. Delaney Mossbacher hits Cándido Perez an illegal immigrant that came to the US with his pregnant wife América to make a better living.
We follow those two men for about half a year and learn about Cándido's fight to survive and Delaney's fight for a valuable mindset.
The book combines the realistic story of a Mexican family and their everyday struggle in the Land of Dreams with the description of a white family’s problems with immigration. The reader comes to identify with Delaney’s thoughts and character changes and finds part of himself in this man.
But we also understand Cándido and his side of the story. There’s no good or bad, we learn.
And that is what I like most about the novel – T.C. Boyle shows that everything is a matter of personal choice and does not depend on your place in society.
by Silke
