imprisoned and tortured for months by pinochets henchmen for teaching political poetry to his students bernardo greene is visited by two angels who promise him that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again months later in copenhagen the chilean exile befriends michela ibsen herself a survivor of domestic abuse in the long nights of summer the two of them struggle to heal to forgive those who have left them damaged and to trust themselves to love dense with wisdom and humanity in the company of angels is a powerful testament to the resilience and complexity of the human heartpraise for in the company of angelswideranging and assured new yorker if its stellar quality is any indication the entire copenhagen quartet promises to be an exceptional reading experience kennedy has a fertile imagination and allembracing empathybooklist starred reviewas elegant as it is beautiful as important as it is profound a marvel of aread junot daz author of the brief wondrous life of oscar waoin the company of angels is a novel about grownups people battered and dinged by life painfully aware of their own responsibility whose understanding of their past never stops evolving its the dignity of their adulthoodthe elusive prize at stake in any midlife crisisthat makes them so admirable and above all so movinglaura miller salon