The five wounds

a novel

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Quade, Kirstin Valdez

Verfasser Angabe:
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Verzeihung
• Familie
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Schicksal

Verlag:
W. W. Norton & company

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2022

Umfang:
419 S.

Auflage:
1. Aufl.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-324-02021-9

Interessenskreise:
American Literature
American Shelves

Inhalt:
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. 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.
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. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn't think he can live up to.

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