The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes new-release But when Mara shows up

But when Mara shows up on Lexi’s doorstep sixteen years later fleeing an abusive husband

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The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes new-release But when Mara shows upThe story of a runaway mothers ten days of freedomand the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenmentfrom Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegra Hudes. 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