Night at the Fiestas, Kirstin Valdez Quade
Night at the Fiestas, Kirstin Valdez Quade
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Night at the Fiestas

Author: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/23/2015


Synopsis

***National Book Foundation 2014 "5 Under 35" honoree*** Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters torn between their desires to escape the past and 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 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 one another. "A story writer of searing vision." (Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena) "A book of extraordinary virtuosity." (Justin Torres, author of We the Animals)

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane

Outstanding collection. Nearly flawless. The story about Amadeo is so amazing. Worth checking out. Last story fell flat for me.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

I’ve read a lot of short story collections but this one just blew me away. There are only two types of stories that comprise the collection: those that are excellent and those that are outstanding. Every single one was so haunting and memorable that it’s hard to decide which ones to highlight. The Fi......more