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L.A. Weather

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L.A. Weather

By: María Amparo Escandón
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
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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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

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Enjoyable family dynamics, well put together. The food names and descriptions made me hungry even though I wasn’t sure what they all were…

Cute story, kept me engaged

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This is a nice, heartwarming family story but not a page turner. I’m glad I stuck it out, jt has some wonderful messages but not the best I’ve read recently.

Pleasant

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I really enjoyed listening to the book. I loved the story, the characters and the voice was nice to listen to.

Beautiful book

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I couldn't really keep up with this story.. so many times I had to rewind it to realize it had jumped to a different characters storyline.. was all a bit too random for me..

So Jumbled

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I liked the storyline about parents and there 3 children with one have cancer similar to my own sister.This story I'm afraid didn't engage me.I bought because I usually enjoy Reeces book club picks.

not my favourite book

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