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L.A. Weather

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L.A. Weather

Auteur(s): María Amparo Escandón
Narrateur(s): Frankie Corzo
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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
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This book is a little too long for me at times but is overall a good book to discuss and analyze. The gentrification almost reminds me of colonization. Forgive my ignorance but I actually did not know that a California was once under Mexican rule. There are many metaphors, especially with broken toys and Felix running over a toy. I saw metaphors connecting the weather to things such as colonialism and the forest fires seem to represent the Alvarado family moving further away from one another.

Likes/ Loves
- Patricia Alvarado is my favourite. She is a social media influencer that seems to have the caring and loving nature.
- I like that all Alvarado sisters have completely different personalities.
- I love that despite everything, their dinners bring the Alvarado family together.
- I like the Jewish and Catholic mix/ upbringing and history of the family.

It is a well written book and it impresses me that María Amparo Escandón was able to write so beautifully in English. I could not imagine being brave enough to write something in another language. During Reese’s virtual book club meet Maria was very open and candid about her family life which I absolutely love.

Family, Drama, Weather

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I enjoyed the story. Easy to follow while driving to work. Loved the characters development.

Excellent audio book

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If I didn’t have to finish this book because of book club, I wouldn’t have. Boring and monotonous.

Nothing

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struggled hard with this one, the readers fake accents did not hook me, the story lacked well.. a story. It was boring and more of a "year in our life"

awful

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