Sheri Reynoldsauthor of The Rapture of CanaanAltar Music is more than a love story, more than a family saga, more than a portrait of convent life or a spiritual journey. It is beautiful and sweeping, textured with the heat of wool and blood, the softness of a spider's web in wind, sounds of Christmas ornaments breaking, a single note ringing from a convent piano. Christin Lore Weber's novel reads like a song. It will sing you awake.