num_pages: 319
description: FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanzas 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. Hes 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 daughtersClaudia 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 loversare 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 Escandn 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.
language: English
title: L.A. Weather
publisher: Flatiron Books