From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott,The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed “haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America” (The Associated Press).One ofTIME Magazine's Top Ten Novels of the YearA 2017 Kirkus Prize FinalistANew York Times Book Review Notable BookOn a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subwa