{"product_id":"ninth-hour","title":"Ninth Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife―that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an ageing nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives―testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paige's Book Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52082062917852,"sku":"9781250888396","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/8530\/6332\/files\/9781250888396.jpg?v=1784504876","url":"https:\/\/paigesbooks.com\/products\/ninth-hour","provider":"Paige's Book Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}