A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next spin class.

“Agnes Lives! is a tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.” --Nell Zink

Would you kill me? I mean, will you? Today?

New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking someone to kill her. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a cutlery set; a Craigslist gun dealer; and Agnes's boyfriend. On her hunt, she stumbles into cleansing crystals, must-have handbags, a Tesla ride where someone else dies, naked housekeeping, and deep, dark water.

Through a kaleidoscope stained with image, money, and sex, Agnes's dwindling icon-filled twenty-four hours become a breathless search for self. Agnes Lives! is a killer exhibition of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way. Newton's prose is disturbingly fun, unfettered, relentless, shattering.