Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angelos 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 illegals Candido 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 Oelaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding. (Courtesy of Penguin Books)

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of the novels The Road to Wellville, East is East, Worlds End (for which he won the PEN/Faulkner award), Budding Prospects, Water Music, Without a Hero, and three other collections of short stories. Mr. Boyle lives near Santa Barbara, Califomia.
 

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