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Agnes Lives!
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Expected 23 Jun 26A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next Soul Cycle class.
New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking the appropriate killer. Candidates an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; a Craigslist gun dealer; and Agnes' toxic novelist boyfriend. In her hunt, she stumbles into unexpected cleansing crystals, must-have handbags, a Tesla ride where someone else dies, naked housekeeping, and an encounter with deep, dark water.
Through a murderously attuned kaleidoscope stained with image, money, and sex, Agnes' dwindling hours of icon-filled privilege become a breathless search for self. Agnes Lives! is a killer exhibition, an obsessive rendering of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way. Newton's prose is disturbingly fun, relentless, shattering. A crafted study of mid-aughts values that have brought us to where we are now. The ping-pong pacing crashes into a worthy, intense denouement.
New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking the appropriate killer. Candidates an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; a Craigslist gun dealer; and Agnes' toxic novelist boyfriend. In her hunt, she stumbles into unexpected cleansing crystals, must-have handbags, a Tesla ride where someone else dies, naked housekeeping, and an encounter with deep, dark water.
Through a murderously attuned kaleidoscope stained with image, money, and sex, Agnes' dwindling hours of icon-filled privilege become a breathless search for self. Agnes Lives! is a killer exhibition, an obsessive rendering of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way. Newton's prose is disturbingly fun, relentless, shattering. A crafted study of mid-aughts values that have brought us to where we are now. The ping-pong pacing crashes into a worthy, intense denouement.
256 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication June 23, 2026
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Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Fuckkkkkkkkkk
Ok babes, this is THE book for all of my unhinged lit loving queens out there. She’s a continuous stream of consciousness and absolute manic behavior, but I love dear, sweet Agnes all the same.
I have been BEGGGGGING Bloomsbury Publishing for access to this book for WEEKS! And yall, my anticipation did NOT let me down!!
So thankful to the pub, Hallie Elizabeth Newtown, and NetGalley for the advanced digital access before June 23, 2026.
Agnes is so desperately in search of someone to k!ll her. Yep. She’s done with life, but not in a weepy depressive manner, but rather she’s just seeking an artistic exit, as she feels to be a burden on her award-winning director of a boyfriend, her wealthy family, and the eclectic individuals within her posse. But instead of her request being fulfilled, what she accomplishes instead plummets her further into the depths of despair and solitude.
Agnes is living through one HUGE manic episode and we’re along for the ride. So buckle up, yall. Bc the journey is BUMPY, but so so fun.
Ok babes, this is THE book for all of my unhinged lit loving queens out there. She’s a continuous stream of consciousness and absolute manic behavior, but I love dear, sweet Agnes all the same.
I have been BEGGGGGING Bloomsbury Publishing for access to this book for WEEKS! And yall, my anticipation did NOT let me down!!
So thankful to the pub, Hallie Elizabeth Newtown, and NetGalley for the advanced digital access before June 23, 2026.
Agnes is so desperately in search of someone to k!ll her. Yep. She’s done with life, but not in a weepy depressive manner, but rather she’s just seeking an artistic exit, as she feels to be a burden on her award-winning director of a boyfriend, her wealthy family, and the eclectic individuals within her posse. But instead of her request being fulfilled, what she accomplishes instead plummets her further into the depths of despair and solitude.
Agnes is living through one HUGE manic episode and we’re along for the ride. So buckle up, yall. Bc the journey is BUMPY, but so so fun.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Agnes Lives is a vivid, unpredictable journey into a troubled mind.
You get to know all about Agnes through her stream-of-consciousness as she tries to find someone in her life to kill her.
You'll see how fractured and frenzied Agnes is, and watch her life unravel at warp speed.
It was a good read and very engaging. I was fully immersed and read it in one day
Thank you, @netgalley, for the eArc.
You get to know all about Agnes through her stream-of-consciousness as she tries to find someone in her life to kill her.
You'll see how fractured and frenzied Agnes is, and watch her life unravel at warp speed.
It was a good read and very engaging. I was fully immersed and read it in one day
Thank you, @netgalley, for the eArc.
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