The virgin cure
By: Ami McKay
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780676979572; 9780676979565
Subjects: Physicians; Teenage girls; Brothels; Female friendship; Abandoned children; Fiction
Description: "Set in Victorian New York in the year 1871, as a crowded, sweltering summer of riots and poverty comes to a close, 12-year-old Moth's journey is just beginning. Sold away by her mother, Moth becomes a pickpocket on the streets of the Lower East Side and becomes involved in a world of danger and violence. THE VIRGIN CURE is a tale of secrets and truths, of dark myths and magic of the heart - of one woman's fight to be heard, and one girl's desire to be loved."--Publisher.