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Product details
- ISBN 9781788168380
- Weight: 337g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize
'A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale' O Magazine
In this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of five generations of the Padilla family. Amadeo, struggling to stay off the bottle, Angel, his pregnant fifteen-year-old daughter, Yolanda, the family matriarch, reeling from a recent discovery, Angel's mother, who Angel isn't speaking to and Tío Tive, keeper of the family's history. But amid the challenges they face individually and together, it is Connor, Angel's baby, who might just be the one to save the family from themselves.
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.
