Torture your protagonist. It’s not enough for him to be stuck up a tree. You must throw rocks at him while he figures out how to get down. ~Allen Guthrie The Tortilla Curtain would make a great Coen Brothers movie. There are a number of put upon people doing their best to get by in a world that doesn’t understand them or even want them in it. It is A Tale of Two Cities set in L.A. and follows the adventures of two men who live in very different worlds only a few miles away from each other. The Tortilla…