L.A. Weather
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3.5 • 80 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"Narrator Frankie Corzo's lovely smooth voice eloquently depicts the mostly female characters in this novel . . . This audiobook enthralls the listener." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review
“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...Escandón’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 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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A secret shakes a Los Angeles family in this lively, compassionate novel. Keila and Oscar Alvarado and their grown children, Olivia, Claudia, and Patricia, have always been close. Even though their father has become disturbingly obsessed with the weather recently, the Alvarado daughters are still shocked when their mother announces she’s filing for divorce. María Amparo Escandón pulls us into the dramas of an endearing and fascinating family as they navigate crumbling relationships, desperate finances, and threats related to the ongoing drought. We loved her spot-on portrait of Los Angeles, with evocative descriptions of everything from the afternoon light to the Spanish revival homes to the disappearance of charming lower-class neighborhoods. Frankie Corzo’s brilliant narration captures the familial banter between the Alvarados perfectly—in both English and Spanish. Inspired by telenovelas, L.A. Weather is a deeply compelling listen.
Customer Reviews
Narrator
For the most part, appreciated the pronunciation of names. But the narrator continually said osCAR (!) instead of OScar. Plus the mother’s accent isn’t like any Spanish speaker I’ve heard. These small mistakes are jarring to hear and distracted from enjoying the book.