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SUMMARY:Calendars and Clocks Book Club
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:Our September book\, to honor Hispanic Heritage Month\, is The
  Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade.\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event
 /15637493
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>From an award-winning storyteller comes <a
  href="https://catalog.dclibrary.org/search/card?id=aed3bf62-1b82-5444-b68
 8-a53291532245&amp\;entityType=FormatGroup" title="The Five Wounds DC Libr
 ary catalog link"><em>The Five Wounds</em></a>\, a stunning debut novel fo
 llowing a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. I
 t's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas\, New Mexico\, and thirty-thr
 ee-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 Wound
 s spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family co
 nverge: Amadeo's mother\, Yolanda\, reeling from a recent discovery\; Ange
 l's mother\, whom Angel isn't speaking to\; and disapproving Tio Tive\, ke
 eper of the family's history. In the absorbing\, realist tradition of Eliz
 abeth Strout and Jonathan Franzen\, Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characte
 rs that will linger long after the final page\, bringing to life their str
 uggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.</p>\n<p><stron
 g>We hope you'll join us to discuss the book if you're available\; books a
 re available for pick-up upon request to third-floor MLK staff within a mo
 nth of the program date.</strong></p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event
 /15637493
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