Tortilla Curtain is a very topical story of a Mexican couple and an American couple. Candido and America survive several horrendous events in order to beg for work every day and live in a hovel in the woods behind a rich neighborhood in a canyon outside of Los Angeles. Delaney and Kyra live in that neighborhood with their son and are key personalities in the neighborhoods conflict to raise a wall around their homes to keep poverty and crime out. T. C. Boyle has some interesting points to make on both sides of his argument, or maybe he blatantly sides with the immigrants...