With her debut novel “The Five Wounds” out, author Kirstin Valdez Quade discusses with us the religious fraternity of penitentes in New Mexico, the inspiration behind the story, and the colonial violence that shapes our communities today.
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei is a first-gen American reading and writing in Brooklyn. Follow her on Twitter, Insta.
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Patricia Engel is out with her fourth book this month, “Infinite Country” and we got on the phone with her to discuss her journey to become a writer, the barriers she faced, and how her latest book responds to the lies we’ve been told about immigration.