Altar Music - by Christin Lore Weber (Paperback)

About the Book

Weber, a former nun, explores the nature and power of sexual, religious, and artistic passion in an exquisitely written tale of three generations of women and their inner battles to reconcile personal longings and the moral dictates of the Catholic church.

Book Synopsis

Enter a Mysterious, Cloistered World Full of Passion and Regret, Where the Lines Between the Sexual, Artistic, and Religious Become Blurred.
This achingly beautiful and revelatory first novel is the story of three generations of strong-willed women and their battles to balance personal longings with the disciplines of their church: Meghan, who dismisses the priest's injunctions about sex until tragedy befalls her family; Kate, who so fears God's power to destroy that she shuts herself off from emotion completely; and, finally, Elise, whose connection to unknowable forces drives her into the most exhilarating, disillusioning, and haunting experience of her life.
Written with lyricism and emotional authenticity, Altar Music is a portrait of a nun as a young girl, an epic tale of a family both defined and divided by its religious beliefs, and a powerful story about mothers and daughters.

Review Quotes

Jackie Pray USA Today What elevates Christin Lore Weber's first novel is its sound...graceful, poetic prose...language used by spiritual pilgrims.

Mark Rozzo Los Angeles Times [Weber's] first novel is a quiet revelation, charting the paths of several women whose lives intersect with the church, with music, and with one another....she has created a delicate and compassionate tone poem about the dangerous entanglement of religion, aesthetics, and desire.

About the Author

Christin Lore Weber grew up in northern Minnesota, entering the convent after high school. She worked as a nun for fourteen years before becoming a writer. The author of six books of nonfiction, including Circle of Mysteries and Finding Stone, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. This is her first novel.