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. It is a novel about female friendship and devotion, the roles made available to us, and how we become ourselves.Blazingly original, wry, and perfectly attuned to the oddness-and the profundity-of life' (Cristina Henríquez), 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 selfĪgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. 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. University of Toronto Schools Technology SuppliesĬlaire 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.Īgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.

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