So begins THE VIRGIN CURE, bestselling author Ami McKay’s much-anticipated new novel. Set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in , where the author’s own great-great-grandmother once worked as a groundbreaking female physician, the novel is told in the voice of Moth, the daughter of a Gypsy fortune teller and a ne’er-do-well who abandons them both a smile Story Description/5. So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year As a young child, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her forever. The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no . Ami McKay's novel, "The Virgin Cure," is a story of poverty and its crushing weight on hundreds of thousands of people in Manhattan during the 's. Miss Moth Fenwick of Christie Street in the Bowery, the city's most deprived neighborhood where there is never enough of anything, shelter, food, or heat/5().
Following in the footsteps of The Birth House, her powerful debut novel, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most beguiling storytellers. (Not that it has to that is pretty much taken care of!)"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. Product Information. From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the poverty and treachery of post-Civil War New York City. McKay, whose debut novel The Birth House made headlines around the world, returns with a resonant tale inspired by her own. Ami McKay's debut novel, The Birth House was a # 1 bestseller in Canada, winner of three CBA Libris Awards, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a book club favourite around the world. Her novel, The Virgin Cure, is inspired by the life of her great-great-grandmother, Dr. Sarah Fonda Mackintosh, a female physician in nineteenth century New York.
Ami McKay's novel, "The Virgin Cure," is a story of poverty and its crushing weight on hundreds of thousands of people in Manhattan during the 's. Miss Moth Fenwick of Christie Street in the Bowery, the city's most deprived neighborhood where there is never enough of anything, shelter, food, or heat. From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the poverty and treachery of post-Civil War New York City. Maclean's (Canada) Fans of McKay's bestselling novel The Birth House are going to love The Virgin Cure McKay's vivid prose can trigger in readers the taste of a hot bowl of oyster stew, the reek of Chrystie Street tenement houses and the sound of a taffeta skirt's hem brushing the floor of a concert saloon.
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