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L.A. Weather: A Novel Audiobook
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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.
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“Narrator Frankie Corzo's lovely smooth voice eloquently depicts the mostly female characters in this novel. She handles the high drama, emotional undertow, and cultural complexity of this story…Her Spanish readings—foods, names, places—are sensual…This audiobook enthralls the listener. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A year in the life of a Mexican Jewish family whose problems include a near-drowning, a drought, and drama galore as the marriages of the parents and all three daughters go off the rails.”
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“This story beautifully weaves together the theme of family and uses weather as a metaphor to peel back the curtain on the layered lives of three sisters and their parents.”
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“A rollicking and hilarious family drama…One of the most endearing LA novels in recent memory.”
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“A warmhearted domestic drama with political undercurrents makes for fun reading.”
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“Absorbing, moving, comic and tragic, L.A. Weather will capture readers and never let them go.”
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A New York Times bestseller
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A Reese’s Book Club Pick
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A Harper’s Bazaar Pick of Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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A Ms. Magazine Pick of Best Books of the Month
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A PopSugar Pick of the Month
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A Barnes & Noble Pick of September
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About María Amparo Escandón
María Emparo Escandón is the author of several books, including Esperanza’s Box of Saints, which was a #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller. Named a writer to watch by both Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, she was born in Mexico City and resides in Los Angeles.
About Frankie Corzo
Frankie Corzo is a film and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. She obtained a BA degree in theater studies from Montclair State University.