All on the edge of turning 30, the young women are at loose ends: Their day care is shuttered, and Sister Roberta is retiring.

Four Catholic sisters live with the elderly Sister Roberta in upstate New York.

JFour young nuns wind up running a halfway house full of quirky characters in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 isOwnedB圜ollections True title Agatha of Little Neon fullDescriptionĭisarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette's Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette's first novel. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House.

bioText: Claire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta.

SortTitle Agatha of Little Neon A Novel crossRefId 5665130 subtitle A Novel id BB9555A5-54A1-4DA1-B0C1-3D3337C7A8D6 starRating 3.5 OverDrive MetaData isPublicDomain False formats Title Agatha of Little Neon dateAdded contentDetails Or has she just been hiding?ĭisarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette's Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. Who will she be if she isn't with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life.īut when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. Their world is contained within the little house they share. 'An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.' -Kristin Iversen, Refinery29Ĭlaire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest selfĪgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. A National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' Honoree

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