The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes
April, a young mother living in a house of unspoken secrets and constant arguments, copes by numbing herself—until a sudden urge sends her buying a one-way bus ticket and walking away. Her ten-day escape into wilderness and uncertainty becomes an intense, sometimes dangerous search for herself, a reckoning with desire, grief, and the patterns that bind her family. Told as a letter to her daughter, the novel is a lyrical, sharp account of a woman learning what freedom and responsibility might mean.
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- Published
- 2025
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 176
- Original Language
- English
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