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2021., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: Fic Qua Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. 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. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tio Tive, keeper of the family's history."
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c2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Vai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hector, a young Zapotec fleeing Mexico for a better life in the US with his friend Cesar, a biotech researcher, pays to be smuggled across the border by unscrupulous "coyotes," concealed in the tightly sealed, empty tank of a water truck packed with illegal migrants. Abandoned by the smugglers in the desert, they are left to die, their only lifeline Cesar's phone. As legends fuse with the terrifying present, the dangers Cesar is fleeing become grippingly apparent.
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2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: CD Fic Vai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hector, a young Zapotec fleeing Mexico for a better life in the US with his friend Cesar, a biotech researcher, pays to be smuggled across the border by unscrupulous "coyotes," concealed in the tightly sealed, empty tank of a water truck packed with illegal migrants. Abandoned by the smugglers in the desert, they are left to die, their only lifeline Cesar's phone. As legends fuse with the terrifying present, the dangers Cesar is fleeing become grippingly apparent.
![The jaguar's children [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76896.JPG "The jaguar's children [CD] : a novel")
