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April 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Virtual
Originally from New Mexico, Collected Works bookseller alumna, current Princeton University professor, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Kirsten Valdiz Quade will discuss her book The Five Wounds with author and activist Denise Chávez.
Quade’s penetrating debut novel (expanded from a story in Night at the Fiestas) tells of a man’s quest for self-acceptance through the metaphor of the five wounds Jesus suffered during crucifixion. In the New Mexico village of Las Penas, Amadeo Padilla, an unemployed alcoholic, has been tapped to play Jesus in the yearly reenactment of the Passion play orchestrated by the “hermandad,” or the Hermanos Penitentes, a secretive order of devoted, self-flagellating Catholics. Amadeo, along with his pregnant teenage daughter Angel (who shows up unannounced during Passion Week) and his silently suffering mother, Yolanda, recently diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, complicate Amadeo’s path to rede