EAN: 9781324020219

THE FIVE WOUNDS - KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE TASCHENBUCH

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 Tíve
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.

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