{"product_id":"the-white-hot-9780593732359","title":"The White Hot","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe White Hot\u003c\/i\u003e has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one of the most memorable voices I've encountered in recent fiction. . . . [A] brilliant depiction of a woman learning to transform her rage into something resembling transcendence.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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: \u003ci\u003edead inside. \u003c\/i\u003eThat is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Hot\u003c\/i\u003e takes 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 and 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Quiara Alegría Hudes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593732359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiara Alegría Hudes\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of \u003ci\u003eWater by the Spoonful\u003c\/i\u003e and the musical \u003ci\u003eIn the Heights, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and which she adapted for the screen. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Broken Language, \u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Theater Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She is co-founder with her cousin Sean of the prison writing program Emancipated Stories.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Quiara Alegr\u0026#195;\u0026#173;a Hudes \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48791298932893,"sku":"9780593732359","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_35eb1e46-f3c1-4240-b041-3b90432852c9.jpg?v=1786551975","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-white-hot-9780593732359","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}