Reading Recommendation: Charles de Lint’s “The Mystery of Grace”

This is a physically beautiful book.  I bought it because it was a DeLint, but my eye was drawn to it from across the room in a crowded Borders because of the beautiful cover.  It’s really not that often that a book design gets my attention so thoroughly any more. 

Charles de Lint is one of my favorite modern urban fantasy writers, and I rather think he birthed the genre.  I still remember the first book of his I read, MoonHeart.  In The Mystery of Grace, he chooses a new setting, heading into th