L.A. Weather

A Novel

By: María Amparo Escandón

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints

L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters - Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers - are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way.

With quick-wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"A rollicking and hilarious family drama...One of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

©2021 María Amparo Escandón (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Fascinating!

I loved her first book and was excited for this one. It does not disappoint. Complex family, a new (for me) peek inside Mexican American Angelenos. Wish a cookbook came with it! The food sounded amazing! I do have to say, I would like to send the reader, the director, and editors a box full of the letter “T” because if there is one in the middle of a word it it has vanished ! Important becomes ‘I’m-por-ant”, cotton becomes “codan’, drove me batty!! Super annoying and no cultural reason for it, the reader does it no matter who is speaking and for all of the narration. Loved the book though!

Very good story, but…

I enjoyed the story very much but for me when a story goes to saving the environment and buying solar farms to save the world, a story feels a little preachy to me. And so turned me off a little bit. That’s just me.

all the lonely people

and apparently they all belong with their mom and dad
it was just a bunch of people pretending to be happy.
narrator was really good.

A light read

Not the most well written book, a little contrived. But if you’re looking for a light no- brainer, this might be your book.

Family

Oh those inseparable bonds that we negotiate our entire lives, juggling how much we don’t say with probabilities. Great familial story. Love the writing/reading of the characters