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'Surprising and spellbinding' Angie Kim, author of Happiness FallsAgatha and Alice are in love. Agatha, a celebrated painter and even more famous recluse, finally wants to settle down. But Alice has dementia, and a lingering fixation on her late daughter, who's buried in her backyard. In an ideal world, Agatha would move Alice - and her daughter's remains, if necessary - into her isolated house in the mesa high above their New Mexico town. But Alice's son wants her safely shut up in an assisted living facility and her property deeds in his pocket. As unlikely allies come to her aid and secrets are unearthed that should have stayed below ground, Agatha engages in a ferocious battle of wills with the townsfolk who stand between her and happily ever after.Freewheeling, hilarious, moving and entertaining, I Am Agatha combines the sideways humour of Big Swiss with the heart and strong female characters of Olive Kitteridge.

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Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art, and the deepest secrets we hold to keep living. Agatha is a narrator for the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice-lush, sharp, blunt, and lyrical, at all once. And that extraordinary ending! Once I finished, I had to turn back to the beginning to reread and rethink through the whole story again -- Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Fall

Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art, and the deepest secrets we hold to keep living. Agatha is a narrator for the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice-lush, sharp, blunt, and lyrical, at all once. And that extraordinary ending! Once I finished, I had to turn back to the beginning to reread and rethink through the whole story again -- Angie Kim, New York Times-bestselling author of Happiness Falls This fierce and tender novel brilliantly captures how unexpected devotion can crack open even the most stubbornly guarded heart -- Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth A marvel of precision and unexpected joy -- Christine Coulson, author of One Woman Show This tale of an artist in New Mexico is itself a wise and gorgeous work of art. Foley makes us see old age afresh, as a time of passion, risk and sharp, exposing light -- Clare Pollard, author of The Modern Fairies In its wise exploration of love's insistent challenge to any sense of certainty age may deliver, I Am Agatha is at once a romance, a mystery, and a marvel. In witty, lyric prose, Nancy Foley maps Agatha's wry voice onto the unsparing beauty of rural New Mexico. Each new chapter with these unforgettable characters is a surprise and a delight - Foley's writing is as striking and evocative as the art on which the novel is based -- Claire Boyles, Whiting Award-winning author of Site Fidelity Through spare and riveting prose, Nancy Foley has created a love story that asks: Does how well we know each other correlate to how deeply we love? I adored the community of mesmerizing characters in this novel who change the course of narrator Agatha Smithson's life despite her attempts to remain unmoved. Inspired by the famous painter Agnes Martin's years in New Mexico and rumors of destroyed love letters, this is a beautifully structured, multi-faceted novel with secrets that stunned me, one after another, well after I thought they'd all been unearthed. I'll be recommending this book to everyone -- Jimin Han, author of The Apology Wry, tender, and deeply original, I Am Agatha is the story of a woman who builds her own house and her own salvation-a fierce meditation on love, art, and freedom for readers of Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout -- Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Please Don't Lie

Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art, and the deepest secrets we hold to keep living. Agatha is a narrator for the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice-lush, sharp, blunt, and lyrical, at all once. And that extraordinary ending! Once I finished, I had to turn back to the beginning to reread and rethink through the whole story again -- Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Fall This fierce and tender novel brilliantly captures how unexpected devotion can crack open even the most stubbornly guarded heart -- Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth A marvel of precision and unexpected joy -- Christine Coulson, author of One Woman Show

Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art, and the deepest secrets we hold to keep living. Agatha is a narrator for the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice-lush, sharp, blunt, and lyrical, at all once. And that extraordinary ending! Once I finished, I had to turn back to the beginning to reread and rethink through the whole story again -- Angie Kim, New York Times-bestselling author of Happiness Falls This fierce and tender novel brilliantly captures how unexpected devotion can crack open even the most stubbornly guarded heart -- Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth A marvel of precision and unexpected joy -- Christine Coulson, author of One Woman Show This tale of an artist in New Mexico is itself a wise and gorgeous work of art. Foley makes us see old age afresh, as a time of passion, risk and sharp, exposing light -- Clare Pollard, author of The Modern Fairies

An evocative debut . . . Foley crafts a colorful portrait of a headstrong artist * Publishers Weekly * In a novel inspired by the life of the artist Agnes Martin, Foley invents a fictional scenario while capturing Martin's emotional essence ... A rich portrayal * Kirkus reviews * Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art, and the deepest secrets we hold to keep living -- Angie Kim, New York Times-bestselling author of Happiness Falls Wry, tender, and deeply original, I Am Agatha is a fierce meditation on love, art, and freedom for readers of Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout -- Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Please Don't Lie This fierce and tender novel brilliantly captures how unexpected devotion can crack open even the most stubbornly guarded heart -- Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth A marvel of precision and unexpected joy -- Christine Coulson, author of One Woman Show

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Nancy Foley is a scriptwriter and novelist. Born and raised in New Mexico, she now divides her time between Santa Fe and Hood River, Oregon. I Am Agatha is her first novel.

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