TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quade,Kirstin Valdez
TI  - The five wounds: a novel 
SN  - 9780393242836
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Teenage pregnancy
KW  - Families
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "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. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, 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 disapproving Tío Tíve, keeper of the family's history. In the absorbing, realist tradition of Elizabeth Strout and Jonathan Franzen, 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."--Provided by publisher
ER  -