L.A. Weather

A year in the life of the Alvarados, a Mexican American family in Los Angeles, through drought, fire and the slow collapse of the parents’ marriage. Escandon uses the weather as the family’s shared obsession and the city’s real anxiety, and gives each of three daughters her own unravelling. Funny about class and Angeleno self-regard, and clear-eyed about how much a family can conceal from itself.