![]() When we meet the sisters, they've just spent years running a daycare that's dried up. Suddenly, the people at the center of her life aren't other sisters, but the residents of Little Neon. I made a note of this one - Woonsocket, a tuckered-out town in northern Rhode Island, split down the middle by a river of waste. So many incisive phrases in a book with such great heart. And I think that's what Agatha needs at this time in her life when she's lost her mother and desperately in need of something to anchor her. Sitting in a pew, Agatha can know what to do with herself for an hour. LUCHETTE: I think Agatha finds a place to hide herself for a while. What did she find in the church and the fellowship of religious sisters? SIMON: Early in the book, Agatha says, I was marked by grief. Thanks so much for being with us.ĬLAIRE LUCHETTE: My pleasure. It is a wry, insightful and remarkable debut novel from Claire Luchette, whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Granta and The Kenyon Review. ![]() ![]() And there Agatha finds herself looking at her own self and soul in the world. They're there to try to help people get sober and get a firmer grip on life. Claire Luchette's "Agatha Of Little Neon" is about four Catholic sisters in an order all coming up on 30, who are reassigned to run a halfway house in Woonsocket, R.I., that's painted the color of Mountain Dew and called Little Neon. ![]()
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