Date and Time
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Location
online
Description
North Olympic Library System (NOLS) patrons can join readers around the world during Together We Read, one of OverDrive's digital book clubs. From February 7-21, booklovers can enjoy reading or listening to Kirstin Valdez Quade's 2021 First Novel Prize-winning book, The Five Wounds, as an eBook or eAudiobook with no waitlists or holds. NOLS readers can join by visiting anytime.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app, then join the discussion online at togetherweread.com/us.
The Five Wounds takes place during Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and 33-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 15-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. 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, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history.
Together We Read is an international reading program facilitated by OverDrive that simultaneously connects millions of readers around the world with an eBook through public libraries. The free program runs for two weeks and only requires a NOLS library card; visit www.nols.org or call 360.417.8500 to get started.
