Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > The Five Wounds > Status Update

"They could have another kid, start a real life, the kind of life recognizable from television commercials, all of them living together in a house with a lawn and a porch with pillars, the kind of life you were supposed to get, not this half-formed humiliating thing he's been living." I'm very engrossed in the lives of these characters, real, sympathetic, complicated.

Engrossed in this well-crafted family story!

I am already invested in these characters -- the previously aimless Amadeo, who is recently invested in the religious brotherhood he's joined and performing the role of Jesus in the Good Friday procession, and his teen daughter Angel, who's showed up on his doorstep 8 months pregnant and with her own newfound sense of purpose.