The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--sudden

When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limp

"Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.

Fantasically funny novel by the author of The Tortilla Curtain, about a man washed up on an inhabited island and his adventures there

The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd T