Tortilla Curtain

I think I have found a book that rivals The Grapes of Wrath. It’s The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle. Finished it yesterday and still vibrating. The writing is excellent, but it’s the content, the look at the complex situation of Mexican immigrants in California ( elsewhere), the dream that draws them north; the validation of jobs that keeps them coming, even jobs that are underpaid, uncertain, and sporadic, and the hostility of the very people who hire them dirt cheap to do work they can’t get Americans to do, at least without paying a living wage. Like preying on like on both sides of the wall as well as unlike preying on each other.

The solution to the blind baby was a bit too easy, but otherwise …