The Five Wounds (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393242836)

It's 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 mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path.

Vivid, tender, 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, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving T?e, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn't 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.

Author: Kirstin Valdez Quade
ISBN-10: 0393242838
ISBN-13: 9780393242836
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2020 pg. 64
Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2021
Publishers Weekly 01/18/2021 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2021
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 25