Reading on the Pike: "The Ninth Hour"
 

Come check out the Pike and chat about the latest great books.
Newcomers are always welcome! This bookclub meets in person on the third Wednesday of each month.
This month's book selection: "The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott
Registration Required.
For more information, please call 703-228-5710.
We are reading:
- Oct. 16: "Solito" by Javier Zamora"
- Nov. 20: "The Plague of Doves" by Louise Erdrich
- Dec. 18: "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
- Date:
- Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Drew Room
- Library:
- Columbia Pike Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
- Location campus Columbia Pike Library
- Audience:
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About the Book:
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In 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, although 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.
About Our Events
Arlington County provides accommodations to individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact us at least five (5) business days in advance.
- Phone: 703-228-5993
- Email: Jberg@arlingtonva.us