Steven Gomez’s Reviews > Tortilla Flat > Status Update

This was excellent. Like most, I read Steinbeck for English classes back in school. But I'm only now coming to appreciate him. The episodic "Tortilla Flat" caught my attention because he riffs on Arthurian legend in writing about a group of dirt-poor friends in the slums of Monterey. Though he gets in trouble today for not making them accurately Mexican, they're still outrageously funny and sympathetic characters.