The Virgin Cure
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780676979572 (0676979572)
Publish date: June 26th 2012
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Feminism,
Contemporary,
New York,
Womens,
Canada,
Sex Work,
Prostitution
This is Moth Renwick’s story, a twelve year trying to survive life in the slums of Manhattan in the 1870’s, who must decide to be, or not to be, a whore. Abandoned by her father, and sold to an abusive mistress by her mother, she escapes her tormented life as a lady’s maid and ends up sleeping on th...
Review link TK
Moth is a young girl living in the slums of lower Manhattan until her own mother sells her as a servant. When she tries to escape and finds her mother gone, few options are left to her. Moth is forced choose between returning to the abusive woman who bought her; returning to her old life; or living ...
It was alright but I definitely didn't enjoy this one as much as [b:The Birth House|171102|The Birth House|Ami McKay|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1172385530s/171102.jpg|2307275].
The Virgin Cure follows the harrowing life of 12-yr-old Moth as she tries to survive mid-1800s New York. This read more as a detached study of a life rather than any personal story.
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