When the parish school needs a geometry teacher and Agatha is recruited for the position, again with no training. They are sent to run a home for recovering addicts in Woonsocket, RI, a job that none of the sisters has any experience or training for.The four sisters act in unison most of the time with Agatha reflecting that they are like different parts of the same body: Frances is the mouth, Lucille is the heart, Theresa the legs, and Agatha the eyes. Agatha and the three sisters of her convent are uprooted from their home in Buffalo, NY when the diocese runs out of funds because of the abuse lawsuits against priests. This is an odd sort of coming of age book. 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. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. 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.
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. “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.
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree
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