L.A. Weather

A Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection

FORECAST: The author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints returns with a humorous, fast-paced story about a wealthy Mexican-American family with storm clouds brewing.

Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, is terribly hoping for a little rain because L.A. is bone dry and parched. He is preoccupied with a pricey secret that keeps him from focusing on anything else. Keila, his wife, thinks she has no choice except to dissolve their marriage because she is so yearning for a life that is a bit less Weather Channel and a little more intimate. Their three daughters—Patricia, a social media whiz who has an amazing ability to connect with people but not with her lovers; Olivia, a successful architect who harbors feelings of gentrification guilt; and Claudia, a television chef with a callow demeanor—are taken by surprise and left doubting everything they know. Along the way, each will need to examine her own relationships critically and make some difficult choices.

Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family with wit and comedy as they deal with secrets, betrayal, and looming evacuations. Their most difficult decision to date is whether to stay together or burn everything down.