Agathe, 6:00 p.m. to 7:27 is Taylor N. Thornburg's first novel. He is an author and essayist based in Chicago, Illinois. His fiction explores strange yet humane ways of being. His fiction can be found in The Garfield Lake Review, L'Esprit Literary Review, Thirteenth Floor Magazine, Valley Voices, The Heartwood Literary Review, Disco Kitchen, and elsewhere.
"A woman comes home to an empty house and a letter on the kitchen table. Her partner is gone. He isn't coming back. Reeling, she regresses memory by memory to the day they met and progresses memory by memory to the present day looking for fault, deceit, and the truth, if the truth is to be found at all, between the jagged edges of love and heartache. From here to there and back again, she resurrects car crashes, bar fights, torrid affairs, phantoms from the past, and visions of the future. All of it Agathe. All of it 6:00 p.m. to 7:27."
ABOUT THE BOOK: "In punchy prose, spiked with clipped fluidity, Thornburg delivers a tender and nuanced ballad (in the sad café of the mind), and tenuous meditation on memory. After coming home to a "Dear Jane" letter left by her partner, Michael, a heartbroken Agathe is compelled to sort and sift through the archival contents of their life together, via inward journeying, in her fevered search for deeper understanding. Time, and its emissaries, becomes both capsuled bewitchment and elastic conundrum, as Agathe plays psychic detective to her own trauma and fallout. With "interiority complex" fully subsuming Agathe, and the narrative, which architects itself from cinematic shards, Thornburg gives haunting and exorcism its existential due in a twilight zone all its own." - John Biscello, author of The Last Furies, Raking The Dust, Arclight, and No Man's Brooklyn.
