The Five Wounds

An Amazon Best Book of April 2021\r\nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit.\r\nJuly 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gays Book Club\r\n\r\nIts 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. \r\nVivid, 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.