T.C. Boyle's tragicomic award-winning novel about assimilation immigration and the price of
the American dream "A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." -The Wall Street Journal
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and
Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop
community: he a sensitive nature writer she an obsessive realtor. Mexican immigrants Candido
and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off
starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings
Candido and Delaney into intimate contact these four and their opposing worlds gradually
intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
