Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not much happens to the Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor, the stars of Alice McDermott’s new novel The Ninth Hour — they ...

Midway through "The Ninth Hour," Alice McDermott's brilliant new novel set in the early 20th century, teenage Sally accompanies Sister Lucy on the nun's visits to run-down Brooklyn, N.Y., tenement ...

Aunts. There were always several aunts around as I grew up. Some were old, others were less old. Some were never married, others were widowed. One was a nun—Jane Francis Igo, S.N.D. Her personality ...

The latest novel by National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott, a distinguished professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, is included on The New York Times' "100 ...

There's a temptation to read this novel about Irish Catholic Brooklyn in the early 20th century as an oblique commentary on Obamacare, which was desperately overdue in the US and which Donald Trump is ...

“The Ninth Hour” begins with the suicide on a gray February afternoon of a young man while his wife, with “a baby coming in summer,” was shopping for their supper. Alice McDermott has woven a rich ...

THE NINTH HOUR. By Alice McDermott. FSG. 247 pages. $26. “The Ninth Hour,” Alice McDermott’s new novel, opens with a suicide and a rescue. Jim, an Irish immigrant and a brakeman on the railroad, makes ...