The Five Wounds: A Novel

ISBN: 0393242838

Author: Quade, Kirstin Valdez

Condition: Used

Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel NomineeFrom an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican familys extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.Its Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of 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 and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mothers house, setting her life on a startling new path.Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the babys first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeos mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angels mother, Marissa, whom Angel isnt speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolandas uncle and keeper of the familys history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesnt think he can live up to.The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as legitimate masterpieces (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.