"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...

Works of chant from the 14th century Norwegian liturgy for St Thorlak, interspersed with 15th century English carols, 12th century Italian laude, Norwegian folk religious songs, compositions for instruments and wordless voice by members of the ensemble, and settings of traditional Latin religious texts by modern composers Anders Jormin, Andrew Smith and William Brooks.