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Book summaryTwo diametrically opposed couples meet--or rather, collide--in this tragi-comedy of coincidence and error. One couple--a Thoreau-esque nature writer and a rabid realtor, both L.A. liberals--lead fairly conventional 90s lives, while the other couple--two hungry illegal Mexican immigrants--scratch out an existence in a dwelling held together with spit. Told from each of their view-points, the narrative unravels to reveal an American crisis of identity. Media reviews"Mr. Boyle deftly portrays Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, catching both its privileged society and its underlying geological and ecological instability... a political novel for an age that has come to distrust not only politicians but political solutions, a modernist muckraking novel by an author who sees the muck not only in class structure and prejudice but in the souls of human beings." More books like this
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