The Five Wounds (novel)

The Five Wounds
First edition cover
AuthorKirstin Valdez Quade
LanguageEnglish
Set inLas Penas, New Mexico
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
March 30, 2021
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover), ebook, audiobook
Pages432 pp.
AwardsFirst Novel Prize (2021)
ISBN978-0-393-24283-6
(hardcover 1st ed.)
OCLC1156993141
813/.6
LC ClassPS3617.U25 F58 2021

The Five Wounds is the debut novel by American author Kirstin Valdez Quade, published by W. W. Norton & Company on March 30, 2021. It is an expansion of Quade's short story of the same name, which was first published in The New Yorker and later collected in her debut short story collection, Night at the Fiestas (2015). The Five Holy Wounds suffered by Jesus Christ during the crucifixion is used as a metaphor in the novel.