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Quade, Kirstin Valdez.

The Five Wounds / Quade, Kirstin Valdez. - London, UK : Tuskar Rock Press, 2021. - 432 p. ; 22 cm.

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.
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ISBN: 9781788168946 1788168941 9781788168373 1788168372

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC176335 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020194818 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Alcoholism--Fiction.
Cancer--Patients--Fiction.
Teenage pregnancy--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Mexico--Fiction.

Subjects--Index Terms: Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6