![]() Readers will appreciate Luchette’s finely observed characters and forgive the plot lapse of having a pre-term baby come home from the hospital a day after its birth. The book is told in flashback, after Agatha has left her fellow-nuns, and the build-up to her departure is well-paced and convincing. To say these folks are “the least of these” is understatement. None of the sisters has the skill or training or even personal background for such work, but they try to care for residents Horse, Lawnmower Jill, and Tim Gary, whose lower jaw is partially missing. Little Neon, a brightly painted structure, is a halfway house for people with chemical dependencies. Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette Shop at Bookshop After their parish in Buffalo, New York, folds due to lack of money and poor attendance, four young nuns relocate to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, to help out at a halfway home full of the offbeat and the disenfranchised. Claire Luchettes 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 Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Finding themselves under-employed, they are sent to Rhode Island. The Catholic Church can no longer deny that some of its priests have sexually abused children, and church attendance plummets in the Northeastern parish where the four sisters, Mary Lucille, Therese, Frances, and Agatha, have been assigned. ![]() ![]() As Luchette’s debut novel opens, Sister Agatha reveals that Pope John Paul II has just died. ![]()
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