Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize<br /> Shortlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction<br /> Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel<br /><br /> One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - A <em>Publishers Weekly</em> and <em>Library Journal</em> Best Book of the Year in Fiction - A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> Best Fictional Family of the Year - A <em>Booklist</em> Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year - A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel Nominee<br /><br /> From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.<br /><br /> Masterly...Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]. --Alexandra Chang, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>

"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. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly 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, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tío Tíve, keeper of the family's history. In the absorbing, realist tradition of Elizabeth Strout and Jonathan Franzen, 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."--Provided by publisher.

"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. ... 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 T?ive, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo doesn't think he can live up to."--