Kiara Alegría Hudes

But really, it's the story of a community.

And it explores, how do I honor my community in an authentic way that's true to my individualism?

So there's that end of the spectrum, right?

And then at the way other end is the white hot.

And the question there is, how do I leave my community, even if I love it?

How do I leave the only people who know me and love me?

How do I find agency in a landscape I've never, ever seen?

And so those feel like really different questions to me.

The question of how to leave is one that April discovers and answers in the book.

Thanks so much for bringing up some stuff I hadn't even thought of with the book yet.