Tortilla Curtain

How would you feel if you immigrated into another country with hopes of a
better life, then having everything ripped away from you in a matter of months?
In “The Tortilla Curtain,” written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, a story about a
couple who immigrates to the United States in hopes of finding work for a better
life than their home country of Mexico. The couple some how becomes entangled
with the rich, white “Liberals” of the Arroyo Blanco Estates, who seem more and
more conservative by the day. Boyle shows how the attitude of the upper class
Americans can deny the simple needs of the immigrants because of how they look
and who they are, illegal “aliens.”

Candido and America is an immigrant couple from Mexico who moved to the suburbs
of Los Angeles, looking to...