Claire Luchette. (2021). Agatha of Little Neon. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.

Claire Luchette. 2021. Agatha of Little Neon. Dreamscape Media.

Claire Luchette, Agatha of Little Neon. Dreamscape Media, 2021.

Claire Luchette. Agatha of Little Neon. Unabridged Dreamscape Media, 2021.

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   • bioText: Claire Luchette is the author of Agatha of Little Neon and has had her work published in VQR, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House.
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Agatha has lived every day of the last seven 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 head up a halfway house, where they live alongside castoffs like 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 will have to reckon with what she sees and feels all on her own. 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, Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they...

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Agatha has lived every day of the last seven 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 head up a halfway house, where they live alongside castoffs like 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 will have to reckon with what she sees and feels all on her own. 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, Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about female friendship and devotion, the roles made available to us, and how we become ourselves.

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     June 14, 2021
     A quartet of nuns navigates unexpected changes in Luchette’s dynamic and resonant debut. Frances, Mary Lucille, Therese, and narrator Agatha are transferred to a Rhode Island halfway house called Little Neon that’s painted the “chemical, lurid” color of Mountain Dew and houses a collective of eccentric characters such as Lawnmower Jill, who drove drunk too many times and now resorts to driving the vehicle from which her nickname is derived. Luchette profiles the nuns with crisp precision, portraying their leader Mother Roberta as a tinderbox of nerves and pent-up frustrations who is angry that “the church she’d loved all her life was reluctant to change”; noting the sisters’ “ovarian synchrony”; and describing the secretly gay Agatha’s observation of two girls kissing in her classroom (she also teaches at a local high school) as “moving their heads the way pigeons do.” As Agatha builds confidence while giving geometry lessons, she and her sisters are challenged by the home’s residents’ judgments of their biblical teachings, such as one who claims the story of Noah’s ark is about “how God hates gay people.” Employing short, clipped chapters and shimmering prose, Luchette garnishes each scene with tender and nuanced descriptions of longing and chastity, creating a lovely story of how cross-cultural exchange can foster hope and fruitful advancements. This is charming and remarkably thoughtful.

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   • content: Narrator Hillary Huber delivers a strong performance as Agatha, the young nun of the title. Agatha has lived contentedly for nine years as a religious. When her Buffalo, New York, parish goes bankrupt, Agatha and three of her sister-nuns are reassigned to a halfway house in the faded mill town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. They find Little Neon, the Mountain Dew-colored house with its odd assortment of residents, taxing yet gratifying. With finesse and subtlety, Huber turns Luchette's short, incisive chapters into spot-on character sketches of Little Neon's residents and sisters Therese, Frances, and Mary Lucille. Listeners feel Agatha's questioning, as well as her doubts and confusion, as she draws away from the Church. Huber's warm voice and intelligent interpretation make Luchette's debut novel an appealing listen. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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