Five Wounds
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Author_Kirstin Valdez Quade
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catholicism
character with alzheimers
chicano writer
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family saga
holy week
latino literature
latinx literature
new mexico
santa semana
teen pregnancy
Product details
- ISBN 9781788168373
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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WINNER OF THE 2021 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
An Amazon Best Book of April 2021
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit.
July 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay's Book Club
Longlisted for the PEN/ Hemingway Award
It's Holy Week in the town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla is to play Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep.
Vivid, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and Tío Tíve, keeper of the family's history. In the absorbing, realist tradition of Elizabeth Strout and Jonathan Franzen, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of her characters to parent children they may not be equipped to save.
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a '5 Under 35' award from the National Book Foundation, the Rome Prize, a Stegner Fellowship and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Princeton University.
