The Five Wounds

A Novel

De: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and 33-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 15-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 Tive, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo 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 book's conclusion, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

©2021 Kirstin Valdez Quade (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

A beautiful tribute Northern New Mexico!

Eeeee! I loved every minute of this audiobook. As a nurse both at Espanola Presbyterian and St. Vincent’s in Santa Fe ten years ago, I was struck by the feeling that this could have been any one of my young patients. The beauty and tragedy of the region is so artistically written. The instant affection for all of the characters is unmatched in any recent novel. This made me not only miss the Norteños of Northern New Mexico, but also the landscape, smells, foods, but mostly it’s fierce dedication to family. I will continue to recommend and read again. Thank you to the author for such a magical presentation!

Excellent

I really enjoyed this book. I felt like I fully knew the family as the characters were well-developed and realistic. Great pace, narration, and storytelling!

Brilliant and Deep Story!!!

This book was extraordinary!!! I loved every word and each character. Based on a small extended family near Espanola, New Mexico. Brilliant!!! This author truly channeled each character in detail with pure genius and depth. Narration by Gary Tiedmann is pitch perfect ~ great feeling for each and every character. I am surprised that this book hasn't risen up on Audible ~ considering how much cookie cutter books are popular. I have listened several hundred books ~ I would put this in my top 10. Give it a try, stick with it, you will be rewarded. Kirstin Valdez Quade is incredible!!!

Incredible writing

One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Powerful writing about family and trauma and the choices we make to change the course of our history.

Kind of depressing.

We chose this for our book club book. And I found the storyline and the characters to be desperate and predictable.