Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
1935 207 pages

Tortilla Flat is a classic novella that takes place just after the first world war in Monterey, California.  The main cast is Danny and his gang of friends that eventually live in Danny’s house.

This is a very easy and enjoyable book to read.  Steinbeck tried to write about people that he knew and even wrote with dialect as spoken by them.  It was very entertaining reading how individuals would do behavior that many of us would state is wrong, however, in their thoughts, it is justified.

The stories are simple everyday matters that the gang goes through every day and the central character in the stories is the house that Danny owns.  This is the simple object that the entire book flows around like a river around a rock.

It is an easy read that doesn’t take long to finish.

Happy reading.

Lopaka