The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay - Used Lisa Matlin navigating life in the city

navigating life in the city

both throughout history and across the world

this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency

Trottier grew up in Val Marie

with changes in the legal system and science

The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay - Used Lisa Matlin navigating life in the cityThe much anticipated follow up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful 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." The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, where eventually she