Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: the "virgin cure"

• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The Virgin Cure

  by Ami McKay

  The much-anticipated follow-up to the phenomenon that is The Birth House , The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most beguiling storytellers. "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. As a young child, Moth's father... (more)