Includes Author's note and topics for discussion for Barnes & Noble Book Club readers.
Summary:
"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. The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge.
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