There is a dark humor in Luchette’s work. Agatha of Little Neon reaches that goal which all novels fundamentally pursue―saying something authentic and essential about the human experience―and does so with verisimilitude and the grace that comes with living simply.”
“ deadpan novel about self-actualization, loss of faith, and the meanings of sisterhood.” Agatha of Little Neon is a novel of self-discovery and of faith―or, more specifically, the unmoored feeling of suffering a crisis of faith.” stunning vignettes of everyday life that most of us let escape without notice. “A wry, insightful, and remarkable debut novel. The nuns don't fly or sing or torment the helpless in Agatha of Little Neon, but they do make an indelible impression." You don't have to be Catholic to connect with Luchette's nuanced and vivid story of a lonely young woman yearning for community and also yearning for everything she's had to give up to be part of that community.
"Sharp, and by turns, melancholy and wry. “Claire Luchette’s madcap and melancholic debut is a stunner.” ―Domenica Ruta, The New York Times Book Review The power and pleasure of this novel lie in the slow blooming of desire from tiny seeds of doubt.” Longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardĪ Summer Reading Pick: O Magazine, Vogue, Nylon, Refinery29, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions, Lambda LiteraryĪ Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Lit Hub, The MillionsĪ Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch, Fall 2021 It is a novel about female friendship and devotion, the roles made available to us, and how we become ourselves.Ī National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, selected by Elizabeth McCracken Who will she be if she isn't with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home-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. 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 will have to reckon with what she sees and feels all on her own. They head up a halfway house, where they live alongside castoffs like 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.
Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together.
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