
Virgin Cure
A macabre voyage into the underbelly of nineteenth-century New York.
''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 1871. As a young child, Moth''s father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her for ever. The summer she turned twelve, her...
A macabre voyage into the underbelly of nineteenth-century New York.
''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 1871. As a young child, Moth''s father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her for ever. The summer she turned twelve, her...