{"product_id":"white-hot-hc","title":"White Hot HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\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: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003edead inside.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethe white hot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Hot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52177305436391,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41W2C0t_F_L.webp?v=1780874574","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/white-hot-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}