The Five Wounds (novel)
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| Author | Kirstin Valdez Quade |
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| Language | English |
| Set in | Las Penas, New Mexico |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | March 30, 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), ebook, audiobook |
| Pages | 432 pp. |
| Awards | First Novel Prize (2021) |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-24283-6 (hardcover 1st ed.) |
| OCLC | 1156993141 |
| 813/.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3617.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.