The boys are determined to lay her body to rest on a small island in Lake Erie, and as they make their escape they analyze their shared past, romantic and otherwise.ĭespite its title, So Shelly is really about Byron. Accompanied by Shelly’s lifelong friend Gordon Byron, Keats steals Shelly’s ashes from her memorial service. Set in modern-day Ohio, So Shelly is told from the perspective of John Keats, a lonely high school junior whose only friend-Michelle 'Shelly' Shelley-has recently drowned in an apparent boating accident. Inspired by the notorious love lives of the Romantic writers and their various paramours, Roth has taken the 'rich kids behaving badly' formula and infused it with some scandalous 200-year-old literary gossip. Holy Grail, St.Let me start by giving credit where credit is due: the Wordcandy to-be-read bookshelf is overflowing with YA gothic romances, but Ty Roth’s novel So Shelly stands out. He is the author of three previous novels: So Shelly (Penguin-Random House), Goodness Falls (First Edition), and Island No. Ty Roth is a composition and literature instructor on both the high school and college levels. Belfast, Ohio, blends a bit of magic realism, Irish mysticism and history, Catholicism, and Arthurian romance to tell a thrilling story of sacrifice, heroism, and redemption.

Pattys Day parade that may or may not be linked to The Grails reemergence.

Complicating matters, the assumption of his guardianship takes place against the backdrop of a terrorist attack on Clevelands massive St. With a number of potential others possessing wicked designs for the sacred prize, Gal must outmaneuver his rivals to find and relocate the icon before they do. Gal is drawn reluctantly into playing a vital role in secretly relocating the most sought after and the holiest of missing Catholic relics, The Holy Grail, after it is revealed to be hidden in a salt mine two thousand feet beneath Lake Erie.

John of Bath High Schools Joseph of Arimathea Society, a service organization dedicated to serving as pall bearers for the homeless deceased of the heavily-Irish suburb of Lakewood, Ohio. Book Synopsis On a March weekend in Cleveland, two cataclysmic events reshape the life of Galahad (Gal) Lafferty, president of the St.

So shelly by ty roth