Biografía del autor Claire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta. 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 for the Arts, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette's first novel. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree"An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood." --Kristin Iversen, Refinery29Claire 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 selfAgatha 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. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, selected by Elizabeth McCrackenLonglisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Best Book of the Year: Vogue, AV ClubA Summer Reading Pick: O Magazine, Vogue, Nylon, Glamour, Refinery29, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions, Lambda Literary, The Christian Science MonitorA Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Lit Hub, The MillionsA Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch"[A] subtle, resonant debut novel . . . The power and pleasure of this novel lie in the slow blooming of desire from tiny seeds of doubt."--Domenica Ruta, The New York Times Book Review"Claire Luchette's madcap and melancholic debut is a stunner."--Rien Fertel, AV ClubSharp, and by turns, melancholy and wry . . . You don't have to be Catholic to connect with Luchette's nuanced and vivid story of a lonely young woman yearning for community and also yearning for everything she's had to give up to be part of that community. The nuns don't fly or sing or torment the helpless in Agatha of Little Neon, but they do make an indelible impression.--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"A wry, insightful, and remarkable debut novel . . . with such great heart . . . [Agatha of Little Neon has] stunning vignettes of everyday life that most of us let escape without notice."--Scott Simon, NPR"Livel[y], funn[y] . . . moving . . . Agatha of Little Neon is a novel of self-discovery and of faith--or, more specifically, the unmoored feeling of suffering a crisis of faith."--Stephanie Zacharek, TIME"[A] brilliant debut . . . There is a dark humor in Luchette's work . . . [and] stunning, haunting prose."--Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Star Tribune"More meditation than story, prayer than novel, [Agatha of Little Neon] is the sort that in crystalline minimalist prose with nary a comma out of order, evokes midcentury existentialist classics . . . This is the most moving book about grace and what it means to whisper a silent prayer to nobody that I read this year."--Ed Simon, The Millions"When the titular heroine of this sublime, idiosyncratic debut lands a post at a nearby girls' school, she is forced to
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