THE NINTH HOUR

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant fami ly in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for those who love Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Anne TylerOn a dim winter afternoon in a Brooklyn tenement, a young Irish immigrant unhooks the oven gas, and inhales. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, a n ageing nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and unborn child.This is how Sally comes to grow up in the c onvent la...[Read more]