{"product_id":"the-white-hot-quiara-alegria-hudes-hardcover","title":"The White Hot -- Quiara Alegría Hudes, Hardcover","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.\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\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.\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 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593732335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2025 pg. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hudes, Quiara Alegría","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009711128804,"sku":"9780593732335","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780593732335.jpg?v=1777574912","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-white-hot-quiara-alegria-hudes-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}