LOS ANGELES -- Never mind these autumn temperatures: Call this the spring of María Amparo Escandón’s novel, “L.A. Weather.”
“I feel like it’s a rebirth, a renewal,” says Escandón of the paperback edition that arrived in September with the Spanish edition (titled “El Clima de Los Angeles”) to be published Oct. 14.
When the novel was first published in 2021 during the depths of the pandemic, she – like thousands of writers whose books were published during COVID’s worst days – couldn’t go on a traditional book tour or promote it with in-person events. That’s what she’d done with her first two books, “Esperanza’s Box of Saints” published in 1999 and “Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.” in 2005.
