5/29/2023 0 Comments The virgin cure by ami mckay![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again. As a young child, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her forever. "I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City. ![]()
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