Together We Read: The Five Wounds by Kirsten Valdez Quade

 

 
From February 7-21, library users can participate in Together We Read: US featuring The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade. This e-book club connects readers with the same book at the same time without any waitlists or holds. Download the discussion guide to start a conversation with other readers. You can also visit the discussion board to share your thoughts.
 
The Five Wounds takes place during Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico. Thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of 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 and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. 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. 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. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to.
 
The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). 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.

 
-Click here to borrow The Five Wounds. To read this book on a handheld device, download the Overdrive app or Libby app.

-Read a letter from Kirstin Valdez Quade
 
-Share your thoughts on social media by using #togetherweread