I Am Agatha: A Novel

“A fierce meditation on love, art, and freedom, for readers of Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout.” —Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author

A darkly funny and moving debut novel about the unforgettable Agatha, whose devotion to a widow with dementia (and an inconvenient attachment to her daughter’s grave) sparks a radical reckoning with life, loss, and love’s aftermath.

Agatha, a bristly painter fleeing her own darkness, decamps to rural New Mexico to live the reclusive ...