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Stained Glass Sundays
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Aeressa
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 Calvary three years ago for being queer-has been Mama Cee's friend longer than Sol knew. Deshara is forty-three, compelling, building her own house-church from the wreckage of exclusion. She sees every exit route Sol maps.
When Sol inherits Mama Cee's house, her cast iron skillet, and her Bible full of questions written in the margins, they also inherit a choice: keep running, or stay through the church vote that will divide the congregation. Learn to cook from incomplete recipe cards. Let Deshara close enough to matter. Stop arriving with one hand on the door.
A story about grief and cooking, chosen family and complicated faith, middle-aged queer love and what it costs to stay. For anyone who's learned that sometimes the bravest thing isn't leaving-it's letting yourself arrive.
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