![]() ![]() Luchette develops every person so fully, so effectively, that even those who briefly cross the page are memorable. The residents of Little Neon include Lawnmower Jill, so called because she drives a lawn mower instead of a car, and Tim Gary, disfigured after an illness that led to a painkiller addiction. When she reveals her given name, Isabelle, to the reader, her identity begins to stretch, to become individualized and complex.Īgatha regards each being she encounters with dignity so, too, does Luchette. ![]() This amusing glimpse of "authority" underscores the humility with which Agatha views the world, as well as the limits placed upon her. In her classroom, "I alone had the authority to switch on and off the overhead lights." When she agrees to teach geometry at the local Catholic high school, she is confronted with a new scale of power. ![]() Agatha moves between a collective narration of the sisters' responsibilities and her own story: her mother's death, her general struggle to speak out loud. There is plentiful accounting of the daily labor in the halfway house, known as Little Neon (the house is "the color of Mountain Dew"). There is dark humor in Luchette's work - "From Woonsocket," they write, "you could vomit into Massachusetts" - as well as insight: "When people saw our habits, they ceased to see our faces." Novel is primarily concerned: a halfway house in Woonsocket, R.I. ![]()
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