The White Hot Quiara Alegría Hudes

The White Hot

First published 2025

What the critics said

Rave reviews. 7 of 7 critics gave a rave.

“Has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April’s is one of the most memorable voices I’ve encountered in recent fiction: insouciant, observant, endlessly curious”

The New York Times Book Review · Joumana Khatib · Rave
“Wrenching and mordant … We never learn what happens to several characters”

The Atlantic · Ruth Madievsky · Rave
“Hudes tells a complicated story of womanhood and the built-up rage it takes to break down harmful generational cycles … Hudes’s writing is lyrical, violent and raw”

Book Trib · Riley Harker · Rave