Quade, Kirstin Valdez

The Five Wounds : a Novel / Quade, Kirstin Valdez - New York : W. W. Norton & Company , 2021 - 419 p. ; 24 cm

In Las Penas, NM, 33-year-old hard-drinking, going-nowhere Amadeo unexpectedly plays the part of Jesus in the town's surprisingly realistic portrayal of the Passion of Christ during Holy Week. Just as unexpectedly, his pregnant, near-16-year-old daughter Angel, fed up with her own mother, drops in to live with him and his mother, Yolanda. What results is a profoundly affecting story that smoothly expands to include the lives of family, friends, and the entire community of hardscrabble Las Penas.


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Alcoholism----Fiction
Cancer patients----Fiction
Teenage pregnancy---Fiction
Families----Fiction

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