Praise for ANGELS AT THE GATE:
This deeply immersive coming-of-age serves up a compelling slice of dark academia that interrogates the complex ways gender roles intersect with class to impact privilege. ~The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sheri Joseph's mesmerizing Angels at the Gate is more than a campus novel, more than a mystery, more than a reflection on memory. It's a deeply-felt story of a young student, Leah, and her friends and classmates, as they begin to create the person they will become, and the choices they make that forever remind them of what they left behind. It's heartbreaking, joyful, and utterly unforgettable.
~Kevin Wilson, author of NOTHING TO SEE HERE and THE FAMILY FANG
If there’s a novel that’s better than Sheri Joseph’s Angels at the Gate at recreating the intensity of bonds and friendships formed in college, I haven’t read it. One of the great pleasures of this story, built around the gripping complications of a mysterious death at a prestigious southern college, is the way the story immerses the reader not just in college life, but in youth itself. There’s a lot going on in a story that explores sexual repression as well as sexual awakening, as well as the machinations of power and privilege, but what I’ll remember the longest, I suspect, is the evocation of youth and the sheer intensity of that time of life. Highly recommended.
~Ed Falco, author of THE FAMILY CORLEONE and TRANSCENDENT GARDENING
Sheri Joseph plunges readers into the shadowy fog of tradition-bound Rockhaven University, where secrets, secret desires, and questions of loyalty swirl around cool girl Leah and her friend group of frat boys. With an unerring eye for the complex dynamics of pre-social media campus life, Joseph elegantly captures the 80s, complete with a to-die-for playlist. Compulsively readable and deliciously dark.
~Leslie Pietrzyk, author of ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE and SILVER GIRL
If you love a campus novel -- and who doesn't? -- meet Leah, your tour guide through a beguiling mystery set among the lamplit paths and leafy towers of a college as vivid and tinged with melancholy as the one in your memory. Cuskian in the sharpness of its observations of friends, family, and frenemies, Angels at the Gate exerts a subtle and haunting power.
~Christopher Castellani, author of LEADING MEN
In the tradition of The Secret History and The Group, Angels at the Gate reinvents the genre of the campus mystery. Leah, inexperienced in both romantic relationships and the privileged world of private colleges, seeks to unravel the mystery of a fellow student’s apparent suicide, perhaps in an attempt to find answers to her own mother’s suspicious death. Through breathtaking descriptions and witty dialogue, Joseph deftly and convincingly creates the rarified atmosphere of the newly co-ed Southern college on the hill, whose traditions, mores, and secrets remain opaque to Leah, even as she believes that her intellectual capacity allows her understanding. As the danger of the mystery increases, involving secret societies and unrequited longings, Leah realizes that the victim-- like Leah herself—like all of us-- longed most for unobtainable connection and intimacy. Through Joseph’s evocative prose and adept characterizations, this gorgeous novel reminds us, once again, how our earliest relationships may suggest our paths, but our vulnerable early adult years cement our futures.
~Allison Amend, author of ENCHANTED ISLANDS and A NEARLY PERFECT COPY
Where You Can Find Me
Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award
A searing exploration of a family’s struggle to heal in the wake of unthinkable tragedy
A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, he is found living a seemingly normal life under a new name with a man he calls his father.
While outwardly stunned with joy at his safe recovery, Caleb's parents and sister are privately scrambling to gather together the pieces of a shattered family. To escape the relentless media attention surrounding her son’s return, Caleb’s mother, Marlene, decides to flee the country and seek refuge in Costa Rica with Caleb and his younger sister, against her estranged husband's wishes. There Marlene forms a makeshift household with her husband’s expat mother and his charming, aimless older brother, all residing in a broken-down hotel perched at the blustery apex of the continental divide. In the clouds of their new home, the mystery of Caleb’s time gone unfolds while new dangers threaten to pull him back toward his former life.
Where You Can Find Me, a darkly incandescent novel that progresses with page-turning suspense, is sure to establish award-winning author Sheri Joseph as a household name.
Praise for Where You Can Find Me
In Where You Can Find Me, Sheri Joseph has written an engrossing, deeply moving, and emotionally complex novel that has stayed with me every moment since I first read it, months ago. Joseph writes swift and faultless prose and miraculously real characters. This book spurs you to pay close attention to those around you and to love as fully in this life as you possibly can.
--Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, Florida, and The Vaster Wilds
"Joseph (Stray, 2007) turns the sensationalistic story of an abused boy who has seen the darkest parts of life into a transformative and often suspense-filled tale of identity and resilience. A deeply moving novel about a family determined to survive the greatest of tragedies."
--Booklist (starred)
"A fraught subject, handled with gravitas and, improbably, grace."
--Kirkus Reviews
“Sheri Joseph (Bear Me Safely Over, Stray) takes this darker than dark scenario and transforms it into a searching, layered investigation…The strength of her novel lies in precisely this generosity and grace, a willingness to turn their strange prism of experience a hundred ways until, unexpectedly, it finally reveals a glimmer of hope.”
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“All seems to be well, but one mark of a good writer is the ability to hint at the disquiet beneath what looks like a calm surface. Like Hilda’s old hotel, part of it fallen into the valley and the rest teetering on the edge of a cliff, the reader is kept in a state of almost nail-biting uncertainty when it comes to this family’s recovery. In Where You Can Find Me, Joseph takes on a difficult subject and makes it work.”
--Bookpage
“With compassion and profound psychological insight, Sheri Joseph follows one family through the aftermath of every parent’s worst nightmare . . . . Suspenseful, beautifully written and utterly convincing, Where You Can Find Me is hard to put down and impossible to forget.”
--Jennifer Haigh, New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, Faith, Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers and The Condition
“What a gorgeous writer! Sheri Joseph's prose is reminiscent of Michael Cunningham's, brave, compassionate, as clear and artful as blown glass. What is most shocking is not the devastation wrought on Caleb Vincent and his family but the grace with which they manage to grow into their new selves. I did not want Where You Can Find Me to end, but the climax is so gripping--and terrifying--I tore through the pages.”
--Susan Rebecca White, author of We Are All Good People Here, A Soft Place to Land, and Bound South
"Where You Can Find Me is a tender, ticking bomb. Joseph's haunting novel of lost innocence and second chances is both terrifying and indelible, and will leave you clutching your family close."
--Alexi Zentner, author of Touch
“Where You Can Find Me is a vivid, page-turning thriller about a terrible crime, and the way one fractured family puts itself back together in the aftermath. Beautifully told, with indelible characters, this novel is full of wisdom about the darkness of the world, and the power we have to survive it.”
--Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories
“In the mesmerizing and disturbing Where You Can Find Me, Sheri Joseph implicates the reader in a journey to the darkest corners of the soul as she explores the aftermath of horror for a teenage boy and his family. Yet all is not dark; the complex and vibrant characters find ample opportunity for surprising beauty. What happens in the present is as gripping as the mystery of the past, and Joseph creates a delicate balance of uncertainty and hope that carries us through to the piercing final pages."
--Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear
Purchase Where You Can Find Me
Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award
A searing exploration of a family’s struggle to heal in the wake of unthinkable tragedy
A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, he is found living a seemingly normal life under a new name with a man he calls his father.
While outwardly stunned with joy at his safe recovery, Caleb's parents and sister are privately scrambling to gather together the pieces of a shattered family. To escape the relentless media attention surrounding her son’s return, Caleb’s mother, Marlene, decides to flee the country and seek refuge in Costa Rica with Caleb and his younger sister, against her estranged husband's wishes. There Marlene forms a makeshift household with her husband’s expat mother and his charming, aimless older brother, all residing in a broken-down hotel perched at the blustery apex of the continental divide. In the clouds of their new home, the mystery of Caleb’s time gone unfolds while new dangers threaten to pull him back toward his former life.
Where You Can Find Me, a darkly incandescent novel that progresses with page-turning suspense, is sure to establish award-winning author Sheri Joseph as a household name.
Praise for Where You Can Find Me
In Where You Can Find Me, Sheri Joseph has written an engrossing, deeply moving, and emotionally complex novel that has stayed with me every moment since I first read it, months ago. Joseph writes swift and faultless prose and miraculously real characters. This book spurs you to pay close attention to those around you and to love as fully in this life as you possibly can.
--Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, Florida, and The Vaster Wilds
"Joseph (Stray, 2007) turns the sensationalistic story of an abused boy who has seen the darkest parts of life into a transformative and often suspense-filled tale of identity and resilience. A deeply moving novel about a family determined to survive the greatest of tragedies."
--Booklist (starred)
"A fraught subject, handled with gravitas and, improbably, grace."
--Kirkus Reviews
“Sheri Joseph (Bear Me Safely Over, Stray) takes this darker than dark scenario and transforms it into a searching, layered investigation…The strength of her novel lies in precisely this generosity and grace, a willingness to turn their strange prism of experience a hundred ways until, unexpectedly, it finally reveals a glimmer of hope.”
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“All seems to be well, but one mark of a good writer is the ability to hint at the disquiet beneath what looks like a calm surface. Like Hilda’s old hotel, part of it fallen into the valley and the rest teetering on the edge of a cliff, the reader is kept in a state of almost nail-biting uncertainty when it comes to this family’s recovery. In Where You Can Find Me, Joseph takes on a difficult subject and makes it work.”
--Bookpage
“With compassion and profound psychological insight, Sheri Joseph follows one family through the aftermath of every parent’s worst nightmare . . . . Suspenseful, beautifully written and utterly convincing, Where You Can Find Me is hard to put down and impossible to forget.”
--Jennifer Haigh, New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, Faith, Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers and The Condition
“What a gorgeous writer! Sheri Joseph's prose is reminiscent of Michael Cunningham's, brave, compassionate, as clear and artful as blown glass. What is most shocking is not the devastation wrought on Caleb Vincent and his family but the grace with which they manage to grow into their new selves. I did not want Where You Can Find Me to end, but the climax is so gripping--and terrifying--I tore through the pages.”
--Susan Rebecca White, author of We Are All Good People Here, A Soft Place to Land, and Bound South
"Where You Can Find Me is a tender, ticking bomb. Joseph's haunting novel of lost innocence and second chances is both terrifying and indelible, and will leave you clutching your family close."
--Alexi Zentner, author of Touch
“Where You Can Find Me is a vivid, page-turning thriller about a terrible crime, and the way one fractured family puts itself back together in the aftermath. Beautifully told, with indelible characters, this novel is full of wisdom about the darkness of the world, and the power we have to survive it.”
--Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories
“In the mesmerizing and disturbing Where You Can Find Me, Sheri Joseph implicates the reader in a journey to the darkest corners of the soul as she explores the aftermath of horror for a teenage boy and his family. Yet all is not dark; the complex and vibrant characters find ample opportunity for surprising beauty. What happens in the present is as gripping as the mystery of the past, and Joseph creates a delicate balance of uncertainty and hope that carries us through to the piercing final pages."
--Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear
Purchase Where You Can Find Me
