L.A. Weather: a Novel

María Amparo Escandón

eBook - 2021

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 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."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 lively and ambitious family novel."—New York Times Book ReviewOscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarad...o family, desperately wants a little rain. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and he's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate... more