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The Tortilla Curtain

Cándido had got her some old magazines in English—he’d found them in the trash at the supermarket—and six greasy dog-eared novelas, picture romances about El Norte and how poor village girls and boys made their fortunes and kissed each other passionately in the gleaming kitchens of their gleaming gringo houses.