In the Company of Angels A Novel

Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claires village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmothers house and waits....

N. M. Kelby is the winner of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature and the Heekin Group Foundation's James Fellowship for the Novel. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story Extra and the Mississippi Review. She divides her time between Sarasota, Florida, and Minnetonka, Minnesota.