I Am Agatha
A Novel
Book • 2025
Loosely inspired by the life of abstract painter Agnes Martin, I Am Agatha follows Agatha Smithson, a reclusive artist living in Mesa Portales, New Mexico.
The novel explores Agatha's intense love affair with Alice, a local widow experiencing dementia, and the moral complexities that arise when Agatha takes matters into her own hands to keep them together.
Through Agatha's first-person narration, the book weaves together themes of artistic ambition, mental illness, aging, and the tension between a woman's fierce independence and her yearning for deep human connection.
The novel explores Agatha's intense love affair with Alice, a local widow experiencing dementia, and the moral complexities that arise when Agatha takes matters into her own hands to keep them together.
Through Agatha's first-person narration, the book weaves together themes of artistic ambition, mental illness, aging, and the tension between a woman's fierce independence and her yearning for deep human connection.
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