Night at the Fiestas: Stories - Hardcover

Quade, Kirstin Valdez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393242986 ISBN 13: 9780393242980

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2015

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Kirstin Valdez Quade is a writer of extraordinary perception, a sharp-eyed truth-teller who renders her characters and the landscapes they inhabit with exquisite care. Each of these marvelous stories illuminates the messy, tender, unexplored borderland inside us all where our finest virtues bleed into our worst faults. A brilliant debut. --Maggie Shipstead"

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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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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393242986
• ISBN 13: 9780393242980
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279