The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade Hardcover Book

Description: The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one familys extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description July 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gays Book ClubIts 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 babys first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeos mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angels mother, whom Angel isnt speaking to; and Tio Tive, keeper of the familys 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. Author Biography Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circles John Leonard Prize. The recipient of a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation, she teaches at Princeton University. Review An unputdownable novel, The Five Wounds takes my breath away with its intimate, humorous and heart-aching portrayal of a New Mexican family. Kirstin Valdez Quade can make a reader laugh and break a readers heart in the same breath, and she leaves us, by the end of the novel, in awe of the dazzling power of her storytelling. -- Yiyun Li, author of Must I GoThe acclaimed author of Nights at the Fiestas returns with a gorgeously written, Franzen-caliber tale of one Latinx familys via dolorosa. * Oprah Magazines Best Books of 2021 *In this cruel and divisive era, Kirstin Valdez Quade has brought healing and regeneration with The Five Wounds. It is bracing and wise, and it breaks us in the best ways. Then builds back up again. It should find many grateful readers. -- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of House of Broken AngelsThe characters in this engrossing novel are created in luminous and memorable detail. Just as the pacing is perfect, so too are the tact and care with which each scene is made. Kirstin Valdez Quade, by concentrating on the truth of small moments, has brought a whole world into focus. -- Colm Tóibín, author of House of NamesKirstin Valdez Quade writes with exquisite precision about the fragility and resilience of the Amadeo family. Valdez Quade is attentive to both the trembling shadows and epic crescendos of her characters shared and private lives. I loved The Five Wounds, which reminded me that growing pains are not confined to adolescence, and that people can be newborn at any age. Even its most excruciating moments are charged with a luminous, pitiless compassion. -- Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!The Five Wounds is brilliant! The story is bountiful and so incredibly well crafted-a beautiful braid of the life-cycle within a family. It captures both the strength and fragility of relationships and existence and the resilience and great power of love and belief. It is a novel about faith in the largest sense of the word. Each page is packed with detail and the most beautiful language-and images and characters that will remain part of our lives. -- A. M. Homes, author of May We Be ForgivenI dont remember ever reading a novel as vibrant and warm as The Five Wounds 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. Its both heartbreaking and a joy to read! -- Lara Vapnyar, author of Divide Me by ZeroWith deep empathy, fierce intelligence, and subtle wit, Kirstin Valdez Quade has crafted an indelible portrait of a family living in precarity. The characters in The Five Wounds 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. -- Phil Klay, author of Redeployment Promotional From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one familys extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. Long Description From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one familys extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. July 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gays Book Club Its 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 babys first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeos mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angels mother, whom Angel isnt speaking to; and Tio Tive, keeper of the familys 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. Review Text An unputdownable novel, The Five Wounds takes my breath away with its intimate, humorous and heart-aching portrayal of a New Mexican family. Kirstin Valdez Quade can make a reader laugh and break a readers heart in the same breath, and she leaves us, by the end of the novel, in awe of the dazzling power of her storytelling. Promotional "Headline" From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one familys extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. Details ISBN1788168372 Author Kirstin Valdez Quade Pages 432 Publisher Profile Books Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788168372 ISBN-13 9781788168373 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-07-01 UK Release Date 2021-07-01 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-07-01 NZ Release Date 2021-07-01 Imprint Tuskar Rock Edition Description Main Alternative 9781788168380 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132392733;

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