The White Hot: A Novel Ziyi Gao and Florence has a reason

and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe…

idealistic but naive

and that he already knows the most important thing about being a big brother: how to love with his whole self

leaving him to live in his car and shoplift to support his addictions

By turns funny

The White Hot: A Novel Ziyi Gao and Florence has a reasonThe 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