Night at the Fiestas
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
"New Mexico stories where grace arrives in the strangest costumes."
A boy plays Jesus in his town's Good Friday procession and takes the role too far; a young woman courts danger on a bus to Santa Fe; families circle faith, penance and each other across northern New Mexico. Valdez Quade writes moral drama with the intensity of Flannery O'Connor and a light all her own.
Worth knowing
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree.
