{"product_id":"the-white-hot","title":"The White Hot","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe White Hot\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eQuiara Alegria Hudes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593732335\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOne World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\n\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\u003cb\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\/body\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"The White Hot | Quiara Alegria Hudes | Hardcover | 9780593732335 | New | Fiction 1694986","offer_id":50819560014082,"sku":"1694986","price":42.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91U2RPEu-YL.jpg?v=1792530910","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-white-hot","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}