Then quickly they are transported to another world of graffiti of men’s genitalia, discount groceries, and a halfway home painted neon green. “There was nothing new for us in that basilica, only things that had always been there, and though we could not admit it to each other, that’s what we wanted, too: to always be there, in the place we’d become sisters. At the start, when the sisters prepare to leave their home of nine years, they pray in the front pew and Agatha recounts the grandiose beauty of the church: Tension builds throughout this novel in vignettes. However, after the move, the youngest nun Agatha is slowly peeled from the comfort of anonymity and constancy and into interrogating her own wants. The four blend together at first, having spent the last nine years in unison. The story opens with four sisters who are being removed from their home near Buffalo to be put in charge of running a halfway house in Rhode Island, Little Neon. At first it is unassuming, as a woman in a habit can be. Claire Luchette‘s novel Agatha of Little Neonpacks a suckerpunch beyond its bold pink cover.
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