Agnes Lives!

New York City, 2014: a world of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags—and quiet existential collapse. Fresh from an early-morning SoulCycle class, Agnes makes a decision: before her next session, she'll find someone willing to kill her.

Over the next twenty-four hours, she moves through the city, from apartment to office to bar to Barney's, cycling through a series of increasingly unsettling candidates: a glacial magazine editor, a Craigslist gun dealer, an older politician she once dated as a teenager, and her emotionally brutal novelist boyfriend. As her search unfolds, so too does the intricate architecture of her mind, revealing a city suspended between glamour and decay, an era poised between confidence and collapse, and a woman caught between longing and self-destruction.

Written with sexy precision and dark wit, Agnes Lives! is a startling debut that dissects the seductive surfaces of contemporary culture, exposing the beauty, brutality, and moral emptiness lurking beneath an obsession with image.