The Five Wounds

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Winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Prize’A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale’ O MagazineIn 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 Tìo 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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Winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Prize’A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale’ O MagazineIn 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 Tìo 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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Weight 0.32 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 3 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

432

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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