03958cam a2200673 4500 2648472839 TxAuBib 20260101120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798217160082 207c5e98-f237-47b2-a9b4-e37ac03d5404 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11688198 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hudes, Quiara Alegría. The White Hot [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Books on Tape, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 145MB. mother daughter relationships. book club recommendations. Hispanic American fiction. pulitzer prize winners. Mothers and daughters. quiara alegria hudes. hispanic literature. generational trauma. literary fiction. feminist fiction. Women's Fiction. gifts for women. book club books. latino fiction. Literary gifts. Single Parent. fiction books. gifts for her. The White Hot. Philadelphia. family life. Abandonment. women gifts. motherhood. Hispanic. feminist. violence. Fiction. family. novels. trauma. latino. latinx. women. love. HTML:The 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. “The White Hot 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.”—The New York Times Book Review A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, OPRAH DAILY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, BOOKPAGE April 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: dead inside. That is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls the white hot, 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. The White Hot 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. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-31 20:00:03. Rubin-Vega, Daphne. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=207c5e98-f237-47b2-a9b4-e37ac03d5404&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)