SHERI JOSEPH WITH ERIC SCHLICH: ANGELS AT THE GATE

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Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117 | Memphis, TN

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Join us as we welcome SHERI JOSEPH in conversation with ERIC SCHLICH on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel ANGELS AT THE GATE.

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 the author of the novels Where You Can Find Me and Stray, as well as Bear Me Safely Over, a cycle of stories. 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. She lives in Atlanta, where she teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:
Eric Schlich is the author of the novel Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife (The Overlook Press), a 2025 Stonewall Honor Book, and the story collection Quantum Convention (UNT Press), winner of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize. His stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, and swamp pink, among other journals. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is an assistant professor of fiction at the University of Memphis.
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