Sheri Joseph: Reading and Signing

About the Book

At remote Rockhaven University, the shocking death of student Brantley Simms beneath the bell tower shatters the campus, a place that once felt safeguarded by local angels. A year later, Leah Gavin, who knew Brantley under strained circumstances, becomes study partners with his former roommate from a rival fraternity and begins to unravel the mystery surrounding Brantley’s death. Her questions lead her back to Brantley’s fraternity and her own closest friends, and from there into secret societies and the darker side of her beloved college. As Leah develops feelings for one boy, she finds herself entangled in a complicated relationship with another, who harbors his own suspicions about the tragedy. Caught between two people she cares for — three if she includes the one who is gone — Leah must confront the unsettling truths she discovers while continuing to navigate her own precarious life as a student. Angels at the Gate offers a poignant exploration of college life to the beat of a 1980s mixtape, set in an unusually insular environment permeated by misogyny and sexual repression.

About the Author

Sheri Joseph is a fiction writer based in Atlanta, where she teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University. Her previous books are Where You Can Find Me, Stray, and Bear Me Safely Over. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Grub Street National Book Prize in fiction, as well as numerous residency fellowships including MacDowell and Yaddo.