The Five Wounds – Kirstin Valdez Quade

Yn y nofel gyntaf fywiog, tywyll, doniol a phrydferth yma, daw Kirstin Valdez Quade â brwydrau pum cenedlaeth o deulu Padilla yn fyw. Amadeo, sy’n brwydro i aros oddi ar y botel, Angel, ei ferch feichiog bymtheg oed, Yolanda, matriarch y teulu, Mam Angel, nid yw Angel yn siarad i, a Tio Tive, ceidwad hanes y teulu. Ond ynghanol eu heriau unigol, Connor, babi Angel, efallai yw’r un i achub y teulu rhan eu hunain.

In this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of five generations of the Padilla family. Amadeo, struggling to stay off the bottle, Angel, his pregnant fifteen-year-old daughter, Yolanda, the family matriarch, reeling from a recent discovery, Angel’s mother, who Angel isn’t speaking to and Tio Tive, keeper of the family’s history. But amid the challenges they face individually and together, it is Connor, Angel’s baby, who might just be the one to save the family from themselves.