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This could have been written at any time in the past fifty years, and would be as relevant as it was when it was published. The characters are rich and I felt for them with every turn of the story. Despite the series of misfortunes that befall the characters, the author manages to end the book on a hopeful note, which made me smile. This is a great listen for all ages. This book has Stayed with me many months after listening to it.

The characters are real people for me. Their trials and adventures are real. I was born and raised in the area where this book is set. Although it is a work of fiction, every detail is vividly correct. The environment is one of the characters. I know this setting and now I know the inner lives of the people in this book. I do not look at day workers or the ongoing debates about immigration the same way since listening to The Tortilla Curtain. This is a fascinating and beautifully crafted story and a major commentary on an ongoing problem.

I highly recommend this book for pleasure and for enlightenment.. This was a good book to listen to. Gives you a good insight of how life for immigrants were in the 90s. A very topical book. Very interesting style of writing with correlating narratives. Interesting how you can hate your own culture. Learning how the immigrants survive is interesting. But as an audiobook this really drags. I prefer unabridged audiobooks but abridgement is needed to make this book tolerable. The social theme of contrast between comfortable life of residents vs desperate life of the immigrants is hammered way, way beyond what is needed.

We get it already, let the events speak for themselves. The internal dialog of the characters is tedious. The tortilla curtain , Penguin. The tortilla curtain , Viking. The tortilla curtain , Bloomsbury. The Tortilla Curtain. Publisher unknown. O T67 Community Reviews 0 Feedback? To read from Alexis Bond. Loading Related Books.

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