Through stained glass: A Novel

After defeat, a proud Southern clergyman relocates his small household to São Paulo and attempts to transplant his ideals by founding a school and building a home called Consolation Cottage. The narrative traces the couple’s differing responses—his bitter insistence on principle and her longing for peace—as they confront poverty, bureaucracy, and cultural resistance. Episodes detail the academy’s growth, daily life in an unfamiliar land, and the slow erosion of Utopian expectations. Underlying themes include exile, loyalty to lost ways, the strains of reinvention, and the uneasy reconciliation between conviction and the realities of a foreign society.