2025 Honorable Mention Book New York Book Festival
When you’re gone… It’s too late to re-write your story.
Estate
Estate slow burns through the most awful of family transitions: Goodbye
Kirkus Reviews rates Estate: GET IT!
New York Book Festival: 2025 Honorable Mention Book
K.C. Finn, Readers’ Choice: “… perfect for fans of dysfunctional family dramas with a twist.”
Estate explores the intricacies rather than ignoring the complexities. To tell a story of loss, resentment, and final forgiveness.
“A convincing and oddly enjoyable novel… Shelley proves himself to be an exceptional novelist…” —Kirkus Reviews
“… a darkly comic literary novel that digs deep into the emotional mess that comes with inheritance.” — Readers’ Choice
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J. Andrew Shelley has lived a life in the extremes. He grew up in Tennessee and now adults in Massachusetts. He has toiled in technology and bathed in the world of words.
Since the 1990’s he has worked too many hours in startups and corporations that have reshaped the ways people communicate and optimized everyone’s processes. He feels some remorse when he recalls telling corporate boards, “Your future is online, and you must get on [social media]!” He now cares most about helping real people navigate this odd place we have made.
Shelley lives in Boston with his wife, two children approaching adulthood, and two cats that he expected to be dogs. One of them undoubtedly threw up this morning, and he thinks that oddly fortunate. Cleaning up after an animal, changing a diaper, or potting a plant settles us back into reality.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
Book Launch Party • Boston, MA
Join us for the launch party of Estate!