ARCHEOLOGY OF ANGEL, a novel

277pp., paperback, Gnossienne, Woodstock, 2026 

ISBN: 9781048336030

Set half in Pomona, California, and half in the Otherworld, an afterlife modelled on the seedy underbelly of 1960s Cape Town, this coming-of-age novel follows a young boy, Edgar, as he deals with the loss of his father while falling in love with a ghost named Angel.

Keely Shinners (b. 1996) is a writer, editor, curator, and performer from Fox Lake, Illinois, who lives in Cape Town. She is the author of the novel How to Build a Home for the End of the World and the chapbook The Agonies and Ecstasies of Saint Marguerite.