Agnes Lives! Megha Majumdar But when the island’s ruling

But when the island’s ruling Council begins banning letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue

They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians

Heartfelt and emotionally rich

As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity

Agnes Lives! Megha Majumdar But when the island’s rulingNew York City, 2014: a world of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbagsand 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