Some feelings resist containment. Left unbridled, they can drive a person to decisions that feel inevitable in the moment and unrecognizable in hindsight. In Quiara Alegría Hudes’ The White Hot, a single mother’s all-consuming rage starts to appear in her young daughter and triggers only one response: to leave her child. In Morgan Thomas’ Mad Eden, a Southern trans healthcare worker recalls a summer of utmost joy that is followed by an unexpected unraveling of everything they’ve carefully built. In Nathaniel Rich’s Cloudthief, a climate journalist’s sense of malaise leads him to be drawn into a plot to rob a data center. Moderated by Olivia Rutigliano.
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