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Following in the footsteps of The Birth Home, her strong debut novel, The Virgin Remedy obtains Ami McKay's location as you of our many beguiling storytellers. (Not that it's to… that's virtually looked after!)"I'm Moth, a woman in the cheapest section of Chrystie Street, created into a slum-home mystic and the person who broke her heart." Thus begins The Virgin Remedy, a book occur the tenements of lower Manhattan in the entire year 1871. Like Mothis dad tipped his cap, smiled and strolled from his girl and partner permanently, a youngster, and Moth hasn't quit believing this 1 day they might be reunited – despite knowing in her heart what he selected over them. Her difficult mom is hardly earning money with her fortune-telling, occasionally for well-heeled customers, however Moth is alltoo conscious of how she truly gives the rent.Life could be so definitely better, Moth understands, if fortune had gone another way - if only she'd had the blissful luxury of a great family and some stop in existence.