L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$27.99
$26.03
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Publish Date
September 07, 2021
Pages
336
Dimensions
6.52 X 9.57 X 1.24 inches | 1.18 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781250802569
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About the Author
María Amparo Escandón is the author of the #1 L.A. Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints and González & Daughter Trucking Co. Named a writer to watch by both Newsweek and the L.A. Times, she was born in Mexico City and has lived in Los Angeles for nearly four decades.
Reviews
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"María Amparo Escandón is bold. Who dares to write about the weather in Los Angeles? Unlike the warm and benign climate cliché that can so easily be ignored, the complicated richness that makes up the Alvarado family can be appreciated from the first paragraph."-- Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate A phenomenal story about the Mexican-American experience in L.A: fun, quirky, heart-wrenching, very human and full of soul. Read it and realize how much we all share (beyond the weather). María Amparo Escandón is a superb and unique observer.
-- Jorge Ramos, award-winning journalist and author of No Borders "Take it from María Amparo Escandón--it's not always 72 and sunny in Los Angeles. Known for her sly humor, she brings us a surprising story about family life in one of America's most complex cities.
-- Reyna Grande, author of Across A Hundred Mountains There is no other voice as quick-witted and sharp as María Amparo Escandón's. In L.A. Weather she displays yet again her talent for creating engaging characters who leap off the page and linger like old friends or cherished relatives. As the Alvarados face shifts of tectonic proportions, Escandón confronts how families test our understanding of not just ourselves, but of the very world around us.
-- Alex Espinoza, author of Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime and Still Water Saints "Messy lives of women, well told. What could be better?"
-- Rodrigo García, writer and director of Nine Lives and Mother and Child
A rollicking and hilarious family drama...One of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review A warmhearted domestic drama with political undercurrents makes for fun reading. -- Kirkus Review
Absorbing, moving, comic and tragic, L.A. Weather will capture readers and never let them go. -- Shelf Awareness
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
