How long does it take to read The Tortilla Curtain?
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle takes about 6 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 355 pages, about 97,625 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
Subjects: Ethnic relations, Fiction, Humor (Fiction), Illegal aliens, Marriage, Married people
