Budget The Five Wounds

Winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Prize ‘A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale’ O Magazine In 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.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. The recipient of a \\”5 Under 35\\” award from the National Book Foundation, she teaches at Princeton University.