{"product_id":"the-white-hot-by-quiara-alegria-hudes","title":"The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment—from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eApril is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom, her ears plugged into an ambient soundscape, and a mantra on her lips:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003edead inside.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThat is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe white hot\u003c\/i\u003e, a voice inside her tells her to just…walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a ticket to the furthest destination; she tells the clerk to make it one-way. That ticket takes her from her Philly home to the threshold of a wilderness and the beginning of a nameless quest—an accidental journey that shakes her awake, almost kills her, and brings her to the brink of an impossible choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Hot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes the form of a letter from mother to daughter about a moment of abandonment that would stretch from ten days to ten years—an explanation, but not an apology. Hudes narrates April’s story—spiritual and sexy, fierce and funny—with delicate lyricism\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand tough love. Just as April finds in her painful and absurd sojourn the key to freeing herself and her family from a cage of generational trauma, so Hudes turns April’s stumbling pursuit of herself into an unforgettable short epic of self-discovery.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51551951814949,"sku":"9780593732335","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9780593732335.jpg?v=1762894143","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/the-white-hot-by-quiara-alegria-hudes","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}