Stained Glass Sundays

Don't leave before you arrive.

Sol Voss is forty-one, a session musician in Atlanta, and very good at leaving. They've built an entire life on clean exits and minimal attachment. So when their grandmother Mama Cee is dying in Calvary, Georgia, Sol plans to show up, handle things, and leave. Four hours south, few weeks maximum.

Except Calvary remembers them. The church needs a guitarist. Mama Cee's kitchen needs someone to cook Sunday dinner. And Deshara Okafor—who was pushed out of Mount Calv...