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Center To Host Book Talk With Novelist Alice McDermott
Reception and book-signing will follow
Cranaleith Spiritual Center will present a book talk and reception with award-winning author Alice McDermott. Alice will discuss her latest novel, The Ninth Hour. The event will take place at Cranaleith (13475 Proctor Road, Philadelphia) on Sunday, June 2, 2019, from 1 to 4 p.m. The cost is $35 and includes a copy of the book, The Ninth Hour. A reception and book-signing with Ms. McDermott following the presentation.
“We are honored to host Ms. McDermott at Cranaleith,” said Kathleen McCauley, program director. “Her novels touch on human spirituality and transformation which is so much of what Cranaleith is about.”
Alice McDermott’s acclaimed fiction explores the intersecting stories of familial love, Irish-American culture, assimilation, and the hard-wrought lessons of adulthood. Her work pulls on the delicate threads of “fear and vulnerability, joy and passion, the capacity for love and pain and grief” (The Washington Post). In The Ninth Hour, McDermott follows a young mother struggling with Catholic forgiveness and shame in the wake of her husband’s violent suicide in early 20th-century Brooklyn.
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The Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, The Ninth Hour, was a finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Time Magazine, The Library Journal and The Wall Street Journal named it among the top ten works of fiction in 2017.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Cranaleith is a non-profit that offers a contemplative space for all those seeking wholeness and transformation for themselves and society. Cranaleith - Gaelic for "Sanctuary of Trees" - has served thousands of guests over the past 20 years through its non-denominational program offerings and spirit-rekindling environment of hospitality, respect and trust. Situated on a bucolic 10-acre property within commuting distance to Center City, visitors enjoy comfortable accommodations and healthy meals.