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L.A. Weather: A Novel
María Amparo Escandón
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“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.
Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License
María Amparo Escandón
From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision).

“1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director

Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life—that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything—adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl’s mother—until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another.

With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. In González and Daughter Trucking Co., bestselling author María Amparo Escandón seamlessly blends together these elements into one compelling and unexpected conclusion that will have you cheering for Libertad and filled with joy.
Santitos: Sexo, humor e ingenio en una novela mágica.
María Amparo Escandón
Santitos comienza con un milagro: la joven viuda Esperanza está velando a su hija Blanca de doce años, fallecida de forma repentina, después de una operación rutinaria, cuando de pronto se le aparece San Judas Tadeo para darle un importante mensaje: Blanca está viva y ella debe salir a buscarla.Entonces Esperanza inicia una larga travesía no sólo geográfica, sino también espiritual, llena de aventuras, milagros y dolorosas experiencias que la lleva desde su pequeño pueblo natal en Veracruz hasta los prostíbulos de Tijuana y finalmente a los centros del sexo más sórdidos de Los Ángeles, donde hace un descubrimiento que cambiará su vida para siempre...Santitos fue el debut literario de María Amparo Escandón, autora mexicana afincada en Los Ángeles, y un éxito a escala internacional. Ha sido traducido a 16 idiomas y también fue llevado a la gran pantalla, con guión escrito por la propia autora.
Transportes González e Hija
María Amparo Escandón
Libertad González, puesta en prisión por un crimen que no revelará inaugura el club de lectura semanal de la biblioteca, leyendo a sus compañeras de prisión de cualquier libro a su alcance, desde Los tres mosqueteros hasta Gua Fodors de puertos del Caribe. La historia que surge, no tiene nada que ver con las palabras impresas en esas pginas. En su lugar, ella relata la historia de un ex profesor de literatura, prófugo del gobierno mexicano, que se reinventa como troquero de larga distancia en los Estados Unidos donde se enamora de la mujer que dará a luz a su nica hija. Cuando repentinamente, Joaqun Gonzlez, se encuentra solo en la ruta con una bebita, nace la compañía Transportes González e Hija. Padre e hija hacen su hogar en la cabina del camión de 18 ruedas y comparten todoaventuras, libros, comidas en los paraderos de camioneros y recuerdos de la mujer que fuera la madre de la chica hasta que un día la niña se convierte en mujer y un encuentro fortuito con un hombre la provocan a rebelarse contra otro.
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