NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"There's a 100% chance you'll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down " -- Reese Witherspoon
"This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory."-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
A capacious book, chock-full of human drama...Escand n's narrative voice is often witty and warm, and her meditations on Los Angeles are lush and lyrical...A lively and ambitious family novel.
-- New York Times Book Review 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 Escand n 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.
