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Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Night at the Fiestas: Stories | Kirstin Valdez Quade
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Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about growing up in a land shaped by love, loss and violence. 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 grandmothers 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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Eggs 💗📚🤗👏🏻 5y
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It‘s Day 7 of the @bookriot #Riotgrams Challenge! Today‘s prompt: it was all yellow! There are a LOT of books with yellow spines. These awesome books were the first ones I grabbed, but there must easily be a few dozen more in my stacks.📚💛📚

marleed I love it when yellow brightens my newsfeed! 5y
Susannah Wow! ☀️ (edited) 5y
CarolynM Gorgeous!😍 5y
atla Olive Kitteridge 💕💕💕 5y
Nute Lovely!🌼 5y
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Finished this lovely collection of short stories set primarily in southern New Mexico just in time for bookclub #litsypartyofone

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The tea is now spiked as this #litsypartyofone has turned into the pregame for two back-to-back bookless, people-infested parties this introvert has to attend 😱

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Digging into these award winning short stories that I need to read for my book club meeting next week. I'm only 1.5 stories in but so far I'm enjoying them. 👍🏽 #awardwineingbookclub #bookclub

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Tonight - In Brief, our book club exploring short stories from writers new and established, is meeting for a discussion of Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade! 7 pm at City Lit Books!



#citylitbooks #logansquare #chicago #inbrief #bookclub #book #bookstagram #igreads #tonightinchicago

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People were kind to me during this time, a strange, pitying kindness. I thought they knew how angry I was, knew there was no hope left for me. I too would be kind, I thought, if I met myself on the road.

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Night at the Fiestas follows hardscrabble lives haunted by loss and enlivened by dreams of a better future. Quade‘s writing is lushly detailed, her characters lovingly drawn, and her stories achieve astonishing emotional power. By turns tragic and very funny, this is a terrific debut. —Rico

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Bought this in NYC last week - excited to get started!

jennirl i dug this one a lot 9y
squibblesreads I'm reading this one for a readathon I'm hosting in April called Genrethon! 🙆🏻💜 9y
Chelsey Is it sitting on a bed of vitamin E capsules? 9y
Liberty @Chelsey Yep. They're so pretty! 9y
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