Point Reyes Book Club: The White Hot
Description
The Point Reyes Library Book Club will discuss The White Hot by Quiara Alegria Hudes on Monday, May 4 from 7 to 8 pm. This book club meeting will be in person at the Point Reyes Library.
Facilitator - Lorelei Sontag
Contact: Mattie Ivy Leeds at 415-663-8375 or mattie.ivyleeds@marincounty.gov to register, or for more information.
About the Book: The White Hot by Quiara Alegria Hudes
"April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hideaway 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"-- Provided by publishe
- Suitable for:
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Adults.
- Type:
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Book Clubs & Author Events.
- Language:
- English