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Stories
W. W. Norton
April 2015
On Sale: March 23, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 0393242986
EAN: 9780393242980
Kindle: B00L4HAXMS
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Fiction
Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully
rendered debut about growing up in a land shaped by love,
loss and violence. With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez
Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce,
troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to
escape the past or else to plumb its depths. The deadbeat
father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by
playing the role of Jesus in a bloody penitential Passion. A
young man discovers that his estranged father and a boa
constrictor have been squatting in his grandmother’s empty
house. A lonely retiree new to Santa Fe becomes obsessed
with her housekeeper. One girl attempts to uncover the
mystery of her cousin's violent past, while another young
woman finds herself at an impasse when she is asked to hear
her priest's confession. Always hopeful, these stories chart the passions and
obligations of family life, exploring themes of race, class,
and coming-of-age, as Quade's characters protect, betray,
wound, undermine, bolster, define, and, ultimately, save
each other.
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