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. 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 .
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. 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 .