Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for best novel...Kurt Hauptmann will learn to make stained glass to help men see the glory of God, one of the many bizarre heritages handed down from his ancestry. But the family has other, more frightening secrets. The path to God runs through darkness as well as light. And the bond of a family is blood, its own and that of its enemies.What is the strangeness in Uncle Detlef, head of the stained-glass studio?...