On Noelle Soto’s eighteenth birthday, she receives a letter from the mother she hasn’t seen in years. What follows is that mother’s explanation of why she left and what happened when her life became an experiment in freedom. “Do not absolve me, do not forgive me, only hear me, consider my story,” the mom writes.
Hudes’s debut novel, The White Hot was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction.
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