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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle - Knosit

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The Tortilla Curtain

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Fiction

1995

The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

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