Their world is contained within the little house they share. “An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.” -Kristin Iversen, Refinery29Ĭlaire 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. Agatha of Little Neon is her first novel.A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House.
Full of small devotions, pith and vigor, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be, this bold debut shines with a light all its own and announces Claire Luchette as a true original and a voice to follow closely.” -Alexandra Kleemanīook notes: Hardcover, fiction, 288 pages.Īuthor bio: Claire Luchette’s work has appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications.
She embroidered pillows, made punch from powder, wrote the homilies for the priest.”īook buzz: “ Agatha of Little Neon is the rare kind of book that reads like a transmission from a person you don’t know, but who is already nestled close to your heart. Twice a year she sewed our made-to-measure habits from yards of a black poly-wool blend.
Every morning she brewed the coffee and every night she cooked the meal. Perfect pitch: “‘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 self.”įirst lines: “Mother Roberta made the rules: no chewing gum, no bicycles, no tree nuts, no pets.
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