Sunnyvale Library Celebrates “Silicon Valley Reads” Month with Special FEBRUARY Event

The 2007 selection for the Silicon Valley Reads community program is T.C. Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain.” This is Silicon Valley Reads’ fifth year. The program encourages everyone in the community to read the same book and discuss it.

 “The Tortilla Curtain,” is a novel that depicts the lives of two Southern California couples who live in close proximity to each other, but under very different circumstances. One couple is affluent liberals; the other illegal immigrants. Eventually, their different worlds intersect in what the publisher calls "a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding."

Wednesday, February 21, Sunnyvale Public Library will present a video interview with Boyle and San Jose Mercury News columnist Sal Pizarro at 7 p.m. Following the video, there will be a discussion of the novel and the interview. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to meet the author, he will be speaking at Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, Wednesday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. For other free Silicon Valley Reads events throughout Santa Clara County, visit www.siliconvalleyreads.org.