![]() ![]() ![]() I picked up “Agatha of Little Neon” for its unusual subject and I got pulled in by Agatha's voice. Nuns, of course, have greatly diminished in number since the '60s and, in recent decades, when they do make an occasional appearance on screen they're often grim, even baroque characters like Meryl Streep's Sister Aloysius in “ Doubt” or Jessica Lange's Sister Jude in “ American Horror Story.” The implication is that there must be something "off" about a woman who would choose such a life of self-abnegation.Ĭlaire Luchette's debut novel, “Agatha of Little Neon,” offers a counter-narrative about a young 21st-century nun who's neither a holy fool nor a musical miracle worker nor a monster. “The Flying Nun” starring a buoyant Sally Field was on TV, "Singing Nun" Jeanine Deckers appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and her life was made into a movie there was “The Trouble with Angels” and the "Mother Superior" of all nun movies, “ The Sound of Music.” For a brief time, nuns, in particular, were everywhere. I was a Catholic schoolgirl during a strange moment in the 1960s when Catholicism infiltrated American popular culture. ![]()
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