6/8/2023 0 Comments Agatha and little neon![]() ![]() The system finds its purest form here in the Catholic church - and focus which has led to the book being attacked from these quarters while simultaneously being lauded by more progressive parts of Catholicism.īut Agatha of Little Neon is more than this it’s also an exploration of female friendships. The word misogyny is nowhere in the text but lies at the core of the book’s concerns - specifically, how patriarchal structures exploit and denigrate women through psychological and physical oppression. As one event leads to another, her questions lead to a growing sense of injustice at the hypocrisy of an institution that venerates female purity but subsists off the unpaid work of a subservient female workforce. But the number of babies dwindles to zero and the four are relocated to a halfway house where they are appointed to look after a small group of addicts in recovery.Īs the story proceeds, Agatha, one of the four, gradually begins to question the value of her work and friendships, the morality of the Catholic church in the face of a growing paedophilia scandal, and the suppression of old dreams and desires. ![]() Set in Buffalo, NY sometime during the last decade or so, the story starts with four young nuns living and working in a Catholic daycare centre. The author, Claire Luchette, has described her book as a story about falling out of love, but not with a person, with a vocation. Agatha of Little Neon is an unusual debut. ![]()
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