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The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade
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Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize
'A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale' O Magazine
In this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of five generations of the Padilla family. Amadeo, struggling to stay off the bottle, Angel, his pregnant fifteen-year-old daughter, Yolanda, the family matriarch, reeling from a recent discovery, Angel's mother, who Angel isn't speaking to and Tío Tive, keeper of the family's history. But amid the challenges they face individually and together, it is Connor, Angel's baby, who might just be the one to save the family from themselves.
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Incredibly well crafted ... captures both the strength and fragility of relationships and existence and the resilience and great power of love and belief.
In this cruel and divisive era, Kirstin Valdez Quade has brought healing and regeneration with <i>The Five Wounds</i>. It is bracing and wise, and it breaks us in the best ways. Then builds back up again. It should find many grateful readers.
I don't remember ever reading a novel as vibrant and warm as <i>The Five Wounds </i>by Kirstin Valdez Quade. Just a few pages in, I felt like I intimately knew the characters, and cared about them as if they family members. It'
An unputdownable novel, <i>The Five Wounds</i> takes my breath away with its intimate, humorous and heart-aching portrayal of a New Mexican family.
Kirstin Valdez Quade writes with exquisite precision about the fragility and resilience of the Amadeo family... I loved <i>The Five Wounds</i>, which reminded me that growing pains are not confined to adolescence
Luminous and memorable ... Just as the pacing is perfect, so too are the tact and care with which each scene is made.
With deep empathy, fierce intelligence, and subtle wit, Kirstin Valdez Quade has crafted an indelible portrait of a family living in precarity. The characters in <i> The Five Wounds</i> are so vivid, their struggles, failures, and grasping efforts towards love and redemption so finely wrought, and each page full of such immaculate prose, that I read this novel with ever-increasing breathless urgency.
The acclaimed author of <i>Nights at the Fiestas</i> returns with a gorgeously written, Franzen-caliber tale of one Latinx family'
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