Virgin Cure
''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 mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention ...
''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 mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention ...
