Five Wounds

Winner of the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of the 2022 Rosenthal Family Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year and Top Twenty-First Century First Novels, So Far A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel NomineeFrom an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. '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, New York Times Book Review