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.Ī lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as legitimate masterpieces. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn't think he can live up to. Vivid, tender, 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, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. 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. 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.

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