Agatha of Little Neon (First Edition)

Luchette, Claire

ISBN 10: 0374265267 / ISBN 13: 9780374265267

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021

About this Item

FSG, New York, 2021. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very fine in a very fine jacket. A clean tight copy, appears unread, with price ($26.95) intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # F-4200-4

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Agatha of Little Neon (First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374265267
• ISBN 13: 9780374265267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

“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.

About the Author

Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon. The winner of a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, Luchette has received fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Their writing appears in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. They are an assistant professor of creative writing at MIT.