I Am Agatha by Foley, Nancy
I Am Agatha by Foley, Nancy

I Am Agatha

"Surprising and spellbinding, I Am Agatha is a beautiful love story and meditation on grief, memory, art,...
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Author: Nancy Foley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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I Am Agatha by Foley, Nancy

I Am Agatha

$91.99 $48.00
I Am Agatha by Foley, Nancy

I Am Agatha

$91.99 $48.00
Author: Nancy Foley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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....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, author of Happiness Falls

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Sigrid Nunez, 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 life of a small-town curmudgeon. It is there she meets Alice, a mild widow with a deepening case of dementia who keeps steady vigil at her daughter's backyard grave. Despite Agatha's rough edges and fierce aversion to sentimentality, she surprises herself by falling in love, and her well-worn convictions begin to upend.

As Alice's condition worsens, Agatha hatches a plan for them to live together at her remote residence at Mesa Portales. But when Alice's wayward son comes along with different ideas--and Alice suddenly goes missing--Agatha takes matters into her own hands with the help of a faithful thirteen-year-old-neighbor, a pair of shovels, and her trusty pickup, embarking on an unusual mission that calls into question whether some secrets are better kept buried.

Sharp, watchful, at once thrillingly perceptive and hidden from herself, Agatha is as imposing as the vast landscape her rustic adobe home overlooks. Loosely inspired by the life of Agnes Martin, I Am Agatha introduces us to this irascible, indelible character who learns--over a stretch of strange, singular days--new ways to fathom life, death, and her own heart.

Author: Nancy Foley
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781668098578


Review Citation(s):
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Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026
Booklist 03/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 01/05/2026

About the Author
Nancy Foley grew up in New Mexico. She has been a writer in residence at Hedgebrook, and divides her time between New Mexico and Oregon. I Am Agatha is her first novel.
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