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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Agatha of Little Neon

Agatha of Little Neon

Luchette, Claire

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Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1250849209
ISBN13: 9781250849205
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 2 2022
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.26
Language: English

Sublime. --Oprah Daily

Wry, insightful and remarkable. --Scott Simon, NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday

Claire 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 self

Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life.

But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. 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. 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. 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?

Disarming, 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.

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