num_pages: 448
description: 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 Tve 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.
language: English
title: The Five Wounds
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company