Billerica Public Library

The ninth hour, Alice McDermott

eng

no index present

fiction

The ninth hour

968557357

Alice McDermott

On a dim winter afternoon in Catholic Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. His suicide reverberates over the decades as decorum, superstition and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence

9th hour